With Goodbye Solo Ramin Bahrani, the Brooklyn-based Iranian-American from North Carolina, regains some of the artistic ground he lost with his sentimental Chop Shop (2007) following his fine, evocative Man Push Cart (2005). Bahrani’s continuing focus on lower- and working-class lives, the “other America,” gratifies; whereas Man Push Cart centers on a Pakistani immigrant, a […]
Daily Archives: August 25, 2009
One of his earliest films, and the earliest one currently available, Yasujiro Ozu’s Gakusei romance: Wakaki hi is a silent slapstick comedy. Its joint protagonists are Watanabe and Yamamoto, college students who come to share a Tokyo apartment and who pursue the same flirtatious girl, Chieko. The film opens with a series of leftward pans […]
Roy Ward Baker makes incredibly entertaining British films, the two most sparkling of which (from among those that I have seen) are The One That Got Away (1957) and The Anniversary (1968), the center of each of which is occupied by a terrific performance (Hardy Kruger’s; Bette Davis’s); add to these A Night to Remember […]
Dennis Grunes 