The paternal principle divides, causing class, racial and gender contentiousness, and the maternal principle binds, generating love, strength, humanity, in an exquisitely beautiful, pulse-pounding animated adventure from France’s Michel Ocelot: Azur & Asmar—to which title an extension has been added in the States: the Princes’ Quest. The princes are Azur, a blond, blue-eyed aristocrat, and […]
Daily Archives: March 24, 2009
It isn’t John Cromwell’s fault that Since You Went Away, a World War II American homefront soap opera, is the worst film he ever made. The fault lies with the moronic producer, David O. Selznick, who inflated the project by making it the most expensive Hollywood film since his own (lousy) Gone with the Wind […]
Eric Rhode and Peter Morris may be correct and incorrect, respectively, that Federico Fellini’s Giulietta degli spiriti fails as “his intended variation on the legend of St. Anthony” and “could lay justifiable claim to being his best [film]”; but it is gorgeously color photographed by Gianni Di Venanzo, indeed spirited, and intermittently honest to some […]
Dennis Grunes 