Yet one more ridiculously inept Oscar winner in the foreign-language division, writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky’s Die Fälscher, from Austria and Germany, is the most objectionable non-documentary related to the Holocaust since Steven Spielberg’s (far worse) Schindler’s List (1993). It is a despicable film. It is based on a true event—the largest counterfeiting operation ever, set up […]
Daily Archives: August 5, 2008
In Latina, which Mussolini had built south of Rome, two brothers grow up. “Black sheep” Accio joins a fascist organization after impulsively leaving the seminary, while his older brother, Manrico, takes a track sanctioned by their parents’ politics, becoming a union leader in the local factory where his father works and, eventually, part of a […]
Henry Fonda gives a beautiful, complex, deeply moving performance as Secretary of State William Russell, one of two leading contenders for his party’s presidential nomination, in The Best Man, the best film that Gore Vidal wrote, on this occasion from his own play, and Franklin J. Schaffner ever directed. The action revolves around the Democratic […]
Dennis Grunes 