After Confidence (Bizalom, 1980), perhaps the best István Szabó film I have seen is Édes Emma, drága Böbe—vázlatok, aktok, a heartrending study of the chaos into which freedom following the collapse of the Soviet Union plunged Hungarians. The film, written by Szabó and Andrea Vészits, centers on two schoolteachers, who have moved themselves from the […]
Daily Archives: November 3, 2009
Jean-Marie Straub identified John Ford as the most Brechtian of filmmakers. Case in point is the most brilliant shot in Rio Grande, the final installment of Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy. White children, kidnapped by Apaches, are holed up in a small Mexican church; a U.S. Cavalry troop, inside the church, plan on rescuing them. (Because it […]
Dennis Grunes 