“[D]own and out in Paris,” as he put it, Hubert Cornfield activated an option he owned and filmed Lionel White’s novel The Snatchers. To accommodate an industry nervousness regarding kidnapping, he borrowed the narrative framing tack of the 1945 British film Dead of Night and presented the kidnapping-for-ransom of a British girl in Paris as […]
Daily Archives: April 9, 2008
This tepid, soapy adaptation of John Burnham Schwartz’s novel is triggered by a roadside hit-and-run at a gas station on Reservation Road. Ethan and Grace Learner lose their ten-year-old boy, Josh; as the police investigation to find the driver falters, Ethan, a college professor teaching media analysis, tries tracking down the “murderer” himself in order […]
What is a director to do after setting the screen ablaze with gay cowboys? Why, turn to cunnilingus, of course. Ang Lee takes another shot at soulful, combustible romance, this time between a man and a woman, with Se, jie. From Taiwan, China, the U.S. and Hong Kong, this World War II tale of espionage, […]
Dennis Grunes 