Based on the same 1898 novel, The Woman and the Puppet by Pierre Louÿs, as Josef von Sternberg’s The Devil Is a Woman (1935), Luis Buñuel’s final film, Cet obscur objet du désir, co-written by Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, plays with different ethnic and stylistic aspects of Buñuel’s cinematic and noncinematic identity. Two different actresses, […]
Daily Archives: August 3, 2008
The middle part of Oliver Stone’s Vietnam trilogy (in between Platoon, 1986, and Heaven & Earth, 1993), Born on the Fourth of July is based on Ron Kovic’s autobiographical book. Stone and Kovic co-wrote the script and fraternized. This ensured an intellectually dishonest and artistically disastrous result. Kovic hovered over the production as had George […]
Dennis Grunes 