An absorbing study of the guilty hangover from the Left’s failure to transform French society in the late 1960s, L’affaire Marcorelle was written and directed, intricately and highly intelligently, by Serge Le Péron, a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma. This film is essential viewing for anyone interested in politics, especially judicial and legal politics. […]
Daily Archives: June 16, 2008
Intricately penned by Jacques Prévert, Marcel Carné’s shimmering Les enfants du Paradis came out of Occupied France. Clandestinely shot, populist, subversive, it is still revered by the French people as testament to their national survival. Perhaps the only U.S. film of similar consequence is The Wizard of Oz, which (correctly) struck 1939 audiences as artificial […]
There have been numerous filmed versions of The Man in the Iron Mask, based on novels by Alexandre Dumas père, including the lackluster silent The Iron Mask (1929), directed by Allan Dwan and starring Douglas Fairbanks père, and the imbecilic version that proves the one worse thing than having Leonardo DiCaprio in the cast is […]
Dennis Grunes 