Here are my current selections of the ten best films of the 1910s in order of preference: 1. THE OUTLAW AND HIS WIFE (Victor Sjöström, Sweden, 1917). The argument has been made that Sweden’s Victor Sjöström was cinema’s first genuine artist. Cinema, which began as a visual recording device in the late nineteenth century, evolved […]
Daily Archives: November 20, 2009
David Hand’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs derives from the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale. Perhaps its most impressive scene comes early: amidst dramatic quiet and darkness, the Queen’s asking the slave who inhabits her Magic Mirror who is the fairest in the land. The Queen is used to getting the proper answer: she is. […]
Chilean exile-in-France Râúl Ruiz’s Le temps retrouvé, d’après l’oeuvre de Marcel Proust adapts the last book of Proust’s autobiographical magnum opus, Á la recherché du temps perdu. Considerable irony is lost in the softened and objectified English translation of Proust’s title: Remembrance of Things Past. Those anticipating a film that silkenly weaves a tapestry of […]
Dennis Grunes 