The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films from Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis “I have a dim foreboding of grief.” — Medea The first half of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s anthropological Medea contains […]
Daily Archives: November 2, 2007
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films from Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Inspired by Petronius, Federico Fellini’s Fellini Satyricon followed the swank and soap opera of La dolce vita (1959) and […]
Valerio Zurlini’s Seduto alla sua destra—literally, Seated at His Right, but called Black Jesus in the U.S. for reasons of commercial exploitation that are all the more contemptible given the U.S. role in deposing the democratically elected Congolese premier and replacing him with dictator Joseph-Desiré Mobutu—is stark, gripping and fascinating. Its Maurice Lalubi, played by […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films from Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Marxism, religious feeling, gayness and penchant for startling visual poetry combine for a heady brew in […]
The coolest, most happening movie of the “Swingin’ Sixties” was made by someone in his mid-fifties. A self-absorbed London fashion photographer (David Hemmings, wonderful) snaps photographs in Maryon Park, prompting a woman (Vanessa Redgrave, anxious, vibrant, haunting), apparently with her lover there, to demand the roll of film. The boy refuses. After successive blowups of […]
Dennis Grunes 