“I’ve been in the shadow of death so long that nothing in life seems so important anymore.” Tom Holmes is the protagonist of Wild Bill Wellman’s Heroes for Sale, a stark, massively moving pilgrim’s progress that opens with a suicidal American mission in the First World War, where one soldier takes credit—honor, medals and all—for […]
Daily Archives: June 22, 2009
“[W]edding bells have such a sweet sound but such a sour echo.” Written and brilliantly directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, One Week is deliriously, almost painfully funny. Beginning with a just-married couple played by Keaton and Sybil Seely, the silent slapstick comedy is devoted to their first week of married life together, […]
Dennis Grunes 