In the course of the opening continuously moving shot through jungle the camera reveals two slaughtered beings on the ground and, following that, the slack arms of their killer. A cut to a man asleep reveals that we’ve just finished watching a dream. The man is Argentino Vargas. (I say Argentino because the actor playing […]
Daily Archives: July 23, 2008
My paternal grandmother had a term for movies like this: anti movies. They’re usually against either socialism or communism, and they are ideologically driven by capitalists, fascists, religionists or proto-fascists. Péter Bacsó’s A Tanú has become legendary through no credit of its own. Its attraction is its history. The film was made in the late […]
Duncan Tucker’s Transamerica is preposterous, with more holes in it than Swiss cheese. The bail-jumping doesn’t bother me, because in a case where bail is set at $1 there’s no way that the New York City legal system would bother about this kid. But why on earth would Toby go off with this presumed missionary […]
Members of the nouvelle vague had started out as film critics; in the 1970s another film critic, and before that a lawyer, emerged as a new visionary in world cinema: Greece’s premier film artist, Theodoros Angelopoulos. Angelopoulos began developing the style—patient, soulful, analytical, political, and charged with profound, unsentimental emotion—which has become, in fact, the […]
Dennis Grunes 