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Monthly Archives: November 2008

THE FORBIDDEN CHRIST (Curzio Malaparte, 1950)

November 30, 2008 · by grunes | in Formal Capsule Film Comments | Leave a comment

Stark, turbulent, poetic, Il Cristo proibito asks, “Why must the innocent always pay for the others?” In so doing it not only delivers a powerful blow to tyranny and the madness of war but also radically reinforces the tenets of Christian myth. The author of the script, filmmaker and composer of the score, Italian journalist, […]

MR. SKEFFINGTON (Vincent Sherman, 1944)

November 30, 2008 · by grunes | in Informal Capsule Film Comments | tagged Bette Davis | Leave a comment

“A woman is beautiful only when she is loved.” This silly aphorism, gospel to Job Skeffington and, when she has lost her looks to diptheria, conceded to by ex-wife Fanny, is something of a barrier to one’s acceptance of this film. If one can get over it, one can enjoy the film. The talents involved […]

FUNNY GIRL (William Wyler, 1968)

November 29, 2008 · by grunes | in Formal Capsule Film Comments | tagged Wyler | Leave a comment

Funny Girl is based on a Broadway musical whose producer was married to the daughter of its subject, the wonderful singer and comedienne Fanny Brice, famous for popularizing the song “My Man” and (on the radio) the character of Baby Snooks. Of Hungarian-Jewish descent, Brice was born Fania Borach in New York in 1891 and […]

MILK (Gus Van Sant, 2008)

November 29, 2008 · by grunes | in Informal Capsule Film Comments | tagged Gus Van Sant | Leave a comment

Whatever else it may be about (for this is a film that exists on many levels), Milk, about Harvey Milk, is about the capacity in America for someone to set the course of one’s own myth. Milk, a gay Jewish New York businessman, was not young but he took Horace Greeley’s advice about going west, […]

LIFE THE WAY IT IS (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1978)

November 27, 2008 · by grunes | in Formal Capsule Film Comments | 1 Comment

Brilliantly written and directed by Eric Rohmer protégé Jean-Claude Brisseau, La vie comme ça revolves around Agnès Tessier, who takes an office job in a chemical factory. She and best friend Florence move into a place in a low-cost apartment building in an unsavory neighborhood. It is Florence’s father, who is smitten with Agnès, who […]

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