Former boxer Jerzy Skolimowski, one of the authors of the brilliant script for Roman Polanski’s Knife in the Water (1962), is himself a director; his Rece do góry is legendary. Its images, including a four-eyed Stalin on an enormous poster sheet, as well as its demonstation of the deleterious influence of Stalinism on a particular […]
Daily Archives: December 1, 2007
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 HIV/AIDS has spawned more bad, sentimental movies than any other category of sickness—and two […]
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 “We are of the same clay. We have endured the same nightmare. . . […]
If we decide that Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and Roberto Rossellini’s The Age of Cosimo de Medici (1972) do not, strictly speaking, belong to the genre (although the opposite case could be made for either of these masterpieces), then the two most brilliant film biographies I have seen are […]
Twelve-year-old Leo Colston is spending summer with Marcus Maudsley, an aristocratic schoolmate, in a luxuriant mansion in the hot, lush Norfolk country. Leo’s family’s solvency isn’t nearly as strong. His mother, a widow, may have to sell the rare books that her husband, a banker, collected as a hobby. The Maudsleys buy Leo new clothes, […]
Dennis Grunes 