The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films from Germany, Scandinavia, Finland & Austria list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis The conclusion of Finnish writer-director-editor Aki Kaurismäki’s “proletariat trilogy,” Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö opens with a brilliantly edited passage recording working-class […]
Daily Archives: November 16, 2008
Faulting Luchino Visconti’s lavish, fastidious Ludwig for historical inaccuracies makes about as much sense as faulting Shakespeare’s Richard III, or for that matter Laurence Olivier’s film of it (1955), on such grounds. It is equally foolish to worry that Visconti does not dwell on the actual political figure of Ludwig II, the Mad King of […]
Because film is primarily a visual medium, documentaries that relax their visual interest by including expert interviews—“talking heads”—by default obscure the topic that the experts are addressing and become instead too much “about” those being interviewed. Malon 9 Kochavim, which Ido Haar, a Jewish Israeli, directed, photographed and edited, refreshes for examining a community of […]
Dennis Grunes 