“What, are you a communist?” the police officer jokingly asks a citizen who has described as red something she observed. This is the one bit of levity in Joseph Losey’s stark, terrifying M, a remake of Fritz Lang’s late Weimar Republic classic, but it helps explain why Losey felt that a remake was in order […]
Daily Archives: September 9, 2009
“I have faith that we never die, but we perpetuate ourselves by the pieces [of ourselves] we give others.” No film that passes off (without irony) so pretentious an utterance as this can be called perfect, but Exist is raw, riveting, very moving, at least in its first hour, after which it grows increasingly diffuse. […]
Dennis Grunes 