The mystery of life and death: Lech Majewski’s Ogród rozkoszy ziemskich pays visual lip service to this estimable theme, but the video/film is trite, silly. Reality, we learn, is immeasurable; “It’s all about feeling.” Based on Majewski’s novel Metaphysics, this pretentious thing comes from Poland, Italy and the United Kingdom. Call it another Death in […]
Daily Archives: August 14, 2008
Victorian poet Matthew Arnold’s dictum “Not deep the poet sees, but wide” can be applied to Otto Preminger’s post-Fox films, especially his widescreen dramatic extravaganzas. Those who cannot take Preminger seriously and those who reject Arnold’s remark probably largely coincide. I love Exodus (1960), In Harm’s Way (1965) and, in between, The Cardinal, from Henry […]
Dennis Grunes 