The second of three film versions of George Kelly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1926 play Craig’s Wife was directed by Dorothy Arzner, who took a feminist tack with the material. Hers is a far more interesting and intelligent film than the other version I have seen, Vincent Sherman’s glossy, more psychoanalytic than socioanalytic Harriet Craig (1950), which […]
Daily Archives: July 26, 2008
Flimsy, farfetched even for a comic book, Batman’s self-sacrificial fate as a hunted criminal convoluted and unconvincing, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight isn’t even an especially good actioner. Much of it, although edited to speed along, is repetitious, hence tedious, with only a couple of sequences giving the heart a consummate jolt. The film has […]
Michèle Morgan (best actress, Cannes) gives perhaps the most exquisite performance in post-silent cinema as Gertrude (with its soft g, an incredibly lovely name in French), a blind orphan who has been raised by Pastor Jean Martens and his wife, “Aunt Amélie,” in a small late nineteenth-century village in Jean Delannoy’s finest piece of work […]
