Prodigiously produced (and perhaps partially directed) by David O. Selznick, in many ways Gone with the Wind is quintessential Hollywood product. It brandishes an industry’s penchant for spectacular escapist entertainment, soap opera and melodrama, star-studded casting and directorial impersonality. How could the picture have any artistic signature when so many different scenarists and directors contributed […]
Daily Archives: April 14, 2008
Adapted by Colo Tavernier and the filmmaker from a book by Francis Szpiner, Claude Chabrol’s fascinating, overwhelmingly moving Une affaire de femmes is an account of Marie Latour, one of the last women to be put to death in France, who thrived as an abortionist during the German occupation, lifting herself and her family out […]
