Professor John Willingdon is England’s chief scientist at its atomic research center. Now he has stolen a bomb, which he will detonate in a week’s time, obliterating the seat of Government, unless the prime minister officially ends British manufacture of all such weaponry. Scotland Yard, convinced he is insane, works to find and apprehend Willingdon. […]
Daily Archives: April 4, 2009
A confident, successful neurosurgeon becomes a mental case when her accuracy as witness in a murder trial is challenged in Kadachit (Perhaps), a dreary, brain-dead Marathi soap opera. Ashwini Bhave, producer, plays Dr. Gayatri Pradhan, a medical celebrity who shares an unconvincingly idyllic life with her husband, an anesthesiologist, and their young daughter. But her […]
Dry, near ridiculous, overproduced film based on Rudyard Kipling’s yarn, highlighted by Spencer Tracy’s Oscar-winning performance as simple Manuel Fidello (he is as Fidello as a dog), a Portuguese fisherman who helps “unspoil” young Harvey Cheyne during a commercial voyage. The brat, who is rescued by the fishing boat after he falls into the water […]
Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens’s Pour le Mistral is his first attempt to film the wind. In Provence, in Southeast France on the Mediterranean, the wind rages and inhabitants resist the rage, as captured in a series of witty streetside freeze-frames. In one, a young woman tries restraining her bridal veil as she mounts the church […]
Dennis Grunes 