Written by Eva Kacírková and herself, Věra Chytilová brilliantly directed the satirical Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliste—Panelstory, in short. The setting is a vast apartment building complex just outside Prague; the complex is partially occupied, partly still under construction, with all the attendant machine-noise, mud and debris due to the latter. The overflowing, mostly […]
Daily Archives: September 27, 2008
Paul Newman, handsome as a god, could also act. He may have been one of a slew of onscreen Brando-imitators in the fifties, but by the end of the decade his own persona had begun to come into focus. Newman gave many performances that coasted on that persona (from which untalented Tom Cruise’s perpetual plagiarisms […]
Dennis Grunes 