The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest English-Language Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis For a while, one of the unfortunate legacies of The Thin Blue Line is that its use of reconstructed events, corresponding to witness testimony, […]
Daily Archives: November 8, 2007
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest English-Language Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Jon Jost’s holistic films interrelate a series of humane, social and political concerns. Plain Talk, a British documentary Jost wrote, directed, cinematographed and edited, […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest English-Language Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis “Don’t you ever like films that win best picture Oscars?” The Last Emperor, the first part of a trilogy that gets progressively more lost […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest English-Language Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Some literary works are untranslatable into cinema, and The Dead, from James Joyce’s 1914 collection Dubliners, is probably one of them. However, Irish-American John […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest English-Language Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Su Friedrich’s black-and-white documentary Ties That Bind is two films in one: her much admiring biography of her mother, a longtime political activist, to […]
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