About 45 years ago, when I was in college, I saw on the big screen The Man I Killed, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. This was not a sophisticated comedy with a light “touch” but an anti-war melodrama, emphatic and a bit sentimental. Over the years, my growing familiarity with Lubitsch’s marvelous comedies and with that […]
Daily Archives: September 13, 2009
We hear a lot about the American Dream, but it is only an illusion (as illustrated by Leo Sweetie, the character here who nominally has achieved it), and Americans (like all others) are left to negotiate reality with real dreams, the ones they have when they close their eyes and go to sleep. Emir Kusturíca’s […]
Dennis Grunes 