Writer-director Shoaib Mansoor’s In the Name of God, from Pakistan, is a tremendous narrative film, and one that deals, in a single instance profoundly, with momentous current issues. I would not call it visually expressive; rather, it is visually efficient and most effective. It is not merely pictorial, as is the case with such inflated […]
Daily Archives: March 27, 2009
A great American film of the Great Depression, producer Walt Disney’s Mickey’s Good Deed is both heartrending and sharply satirical. Mickey Mouse and faithful dog Pluto are homeless at Christmastime; while Pluto pathetically moans on cue, Mickey plays “O Come O Ye Faithful” on his bass fiddle as seasonally compassionate passers-by drop coins into his […]
I have a list of the fifty best film actors of all time. This eclectic list includes the likes of Baranovskya, Chaplin, Per Oscarsson, Vanessa Redgrave and Keanu Reeves. For me, the initial attraction of Adua e le compagne is that this obscure Italian tragicomedy stars three actors who are on my list: Simone Signoret, […]
Dennis Grunes 