“. . . [O]nce I had a voice . . .” Winner of prizes as best film and for its director, Ademir Kenović, Savrseni krug, from Bosnia-Herzegovina, is a striking portrait of the Siege of Sarajevo. Seeing it, one wants to kill any Bosnian Serb whose path one crosses. A dog and a wee kitten […]
Daily Archives: October 6, 2008
Liza Minnelli gives a good, if showy performance as Mary Ann Adams, nicknamed Pookie, in the Salingeresque The Sterile Cuckoo, from the novel by John Nichols. Pookie is a first-term college student who is haunted by the death of her mother in childbirth—“my first victim,” she flamboyantly explains. Intensely lonely and feeling immensely unloved, she […]
Dennis Grunes 