Amir Bar-Lev, whose Fighter (2001) followed two Holocaust survivors along the route by which one of them escaped from a Nazi death camp, has now made a dazzling, even more brilliant documentary. (In Binghamton—near where I went to college.) The “star” of My Kid Could Paint That is Marla Olmstead, who started painting when she […]
Daily Archives: October 27, 2007
The best Tracy-Hepburn films are George Cukor’s Adam’s Rib (1949) and Frank Capra’s State of the Union (1948), and they owe more to Judy Holliday and Angela Lansbury than to the lead pair. The worst film Tracy and Hepburn made together is the vapid, sentimental visual atrocity Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer, 1967). […]
Without doubt the worst Iranian film I have seen, but an art house success here nevertheless, Baran was written and directed by Majid Majidi. This is distressing; I very much liked Majidi’s The Color of Paradise (Rang-e khoda, 1999), although that also was largely a storytelling film and, hence, of greatly limited interest when compared […]
Dennis Grunes 