One of the most richly scored, dazzlingly entertaining Hollywood musicals ever, and perhaps my father’s favorite film, Go Into Your Dance was directed by Archie Mayo, although a few extraneous, inserted scenes were directed by others. Al Jolson is brilliant as Al Howard, a stage star trying to get back into the business after walking […]
Daily Archives: April 24, 2008
In the shadow of the Algerian War and the 1968 uprising and brutal reprisals, authority, once sancrosanct in France, has crumbled as a shibboleth. Look at poor Treuffais, university professor, who commands so little respect in his own classroom! Treuffais belongs to the Nada gang, an anarchic group fueled less by conviction than by revolutionary […]
