Some Who Lived is among the films included in Broken Silence, the Holocaust anthology produced by James Moll in association with the Shoah Foundation, which he co-founded. Directed by Argentina’s Luis Puenzo (La historia oficial, 1985), it is one of the most moving and gripping films about the Holocaust that I’ve seen. Other films in […]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
An attractive, sometimes captivating series of set-pieces, until the blowup of Vesuvius, which comes as a stagy disappointment, Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeii is an outstanding silent film from Italy. It is based on Edward George Bulwer-Lytton’s novel The Last Days of Pompeii. Mario Caserini wrote the script and co-directed, along with Eleuterio Rodolfi. The […]
“The very first thing I knew was that my country was at war,” Thavi tells us, “and that my father was a soldier.” Nerakhoon, which is also being called The Betrayal, is a saga of vicious U.S. war, U.S. betrayal, and becoming immigrants in a strange and inhospitable land. Thavi’s father, an officer in the […]
THE 100 GREATEST FILMS FROM FRANCE, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS AND SWITZERLAND. July 2009. Below you will find what I consider to be a a given moment on a given day the one hundred best films from France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland. Each film is given a 295-300-word entry. The first 15, a stab at my most favorites […]
Below is Part II of my list of the 100 greatest films from France, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland. (Please see the introduction to Part I, which is tagged at the end of Part II for easy access, for an explanation of certain exclusions and inclusions.) This part of the list covers 1961 to the present […]
Dennis Grunes 