The Rain People—which one critic, Danny Peary, has called “probably Coppola’s most personally felt film and certainly his most honest one”—is so powerful and wonderfully observed as to suggest the different course that Francis Ford Coppola’s career might have taken had he not sold his soul for profits. The Rain People does have some of […]
Daily Archives: November 14, 2007
The preface of the Mexican film El Topo, by Chile’s Alejandro Jodorowsky, considers the titular animal, the mole, that searches through earth for sunlight and, when finally finding it, goes blind. Relating this to the protagonist (played by Jodorowsky, who also composed the film’s sometimes annoyingly raucous music) may come hard or not at all; […]
The following is one of the entries from my list of the 100 greatest films (through 2006) from Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Ten years after the Revolution deposed Batista, Lucía, by Humberto Solás, expressed hopefulness of […]
The following is one of the entries from my list of the 100 greatest films (through 2006) from Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Concentric circles of oppression structure the main action in Remparts d’argile, French filmmaker Jean-Louis […]
The following is one of the entries from my list of the 100 greatest films (through 2006) from Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Cine-fiction: France’s prolific Jean Rouch coined this term for ethnographic documentaries that are launched […]
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