From Hungary, István Szöts’s Emberek a havason adapts stories by József Nyirö about poor, uneducated folk living and working near and in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania. “They do not go to church often,” the narrator tells us, “but when they do they listen to mass. . . . God loves these people.” One family […]
Daily Archives: April 1, 2008
From a script by himself, R.D. Murphy and Robb Williamson, Mark Milgard’s Dandelion opens in a vast silent, pristine field of oceanic wheat. Amidst light, beauty, 16-year-old Mason (Vincent Kartheiser, fine, sensitive) stands with a gun poised in his mouth. He shoots, but the cut is so quick we don’t detect a drop of blood. […]
Dennis Grunes 