From the Nederlands Dans Theater, “Car Men” is a bizarre dance film based on Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen involving both scrapped and vintage cars, as well as past-prime dancers. It is like a bad dream; but that doesn’t make it a bad movie. Under a half-hour in length, it remains effective for what it is: […]
Daily Archives: September 6, 2008
Trite, unrealistic, contrived: this is how Joseph Losey described the story of his film Blind Date (Chance Meeting in the States), adding that as a consequence he felt it necessary “that we give it as much interest in terms of observation and reality as we could, and that the characters be very rich.” Losey succeeded, […]
As though driven by a demon to sully after only a few years his haunting Brief Encounter (1945), David Lean made The Passionate Friends, released in the States as One Woman’s Story, which updates the 1913 novel by the-then recently deceased H. G. Wells. The earlier film’s principal asset, heavenly Celia Johnson, isn’t on hand, […]
Dennis Grunes 