One of the most dazzlingly inventive films ever made, especially in its symphony of natural (or purportedly natural) sounds, Entuziazm is still my least favorite film by Polish-born documentarian Dziga Vertov (Denis Abramovich Kaufman), who also made one of my ten favorite ones, The Man with a Movie Camera (1928). Entuziazm is essential viewing, of […]
Daily Archives: April 5, 2008
Andrei Konchalovsky’s Duet for One cannot help but strike us differently, more personally, more deeply, now that its star, Julie Andrews, has suffered the terrible coincidence of the loss of her singing voice and has been without it now for more than a decade. She has more or less become, then, the part she played […]
Dennis Grunes 