I am so sad to hear of Eric Rohmer’s death at age 89. Eric Rohmer is one of France’s greatest film artists—and, as a critic, the one who, with Claude Chabrol, wrote the book that convinced the world that Alfred Hitchcock is one of the great Roman Catholic artists of the twentieth century. Rohmer now […]
Daily Archives: January 11, 2010
Feudalism holding on in war-torn 1930s China: refugees from a destroyed peasant village pour through a town as vultures circle in the sky. These people did not pay taxes. The warlord responsible for the destruction of their homes, Gen. Yang (Akim Tamiroff, brilliant), is implacable in his chauffeured car which rides over the camera: a […]
Dennis Grunes 