Boisterous, ebullient, warm, overflowing with humanity, Luis Buñuel’s Subida al cielo, literally, Ascent to Heaven, but known in the States as Mexican Bus Ride, is among my favorite films of his now that I’ve seen it belatedly for the first time. It isn’t as accomplished or satirically brilliant as other Buñuel films, but it’s endearing, […]
Daily Archives: February 5, 2008
The senselessness of war: the nobility of this theme did nothing to raise David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) above a level of hollowness and mediocrity. From West Germany, based on an actual incident recorded in Manfred Gregor’s autobiographical novel, Die Brücke achieves a finer, more powerful result. It, too, is a […]
Dennis Grunes 