Apparently no relation to Michael Gordon, the fifties-blacklisted filmmaker of An Act of Murder (1948) and I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951) and the grandfather of gifted Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stuart Gordon directed Edmond. Gordon, a horror movie director, is experienced at directing David Mamet on stage. But as things go, Edmond is a […]
Daily Archives: November 8, 2008
Written by Elena Soarez and directed by Andrucha Waddington, and beautifully photographed by Breno Silveira in impoverished, rural northern Brazil, Eu Tu Eles is an irritating and schematic comedy-drama that could be described as “Brecht Lite.” Its protagonist, pregnant Darlene, is jilted at the altar, doubly mocking the white of her wedding dress. Three years […]
A brilliant tragicomedy of the discontinuous lives of the working poor, Ariel is the second part of Aki Kaurismäki’s “proletarian trilogy.” Taisto Kasurinen’s unhappy lot in life, we are given to understand, was set prior to the film’s action and will continue beyond its completion. At the outset, the closing of a coal mine deprives […]
Dennis Grunes 