“Something’s just not right here.” — understatement uttered upon finding a dinner table populated by ten or so freshly murdered familiar souls Alternately frightening and hilarious, writer-director Râúl Ruiz’s Ce jour-là revolves around the attempt—by her family, the police and the government—to eliminate heiress Livia and appropriate her upcoming fortune, property and power in “Switzerland, […]
Daily Archives: January 23, 2010
The year 1945 saw the completion of the first two of three collaborations between director Peter Godfrey and actress Barbara Stanwyck; one, Christmas in Connecticut, is a light romantic comedy that has become a seasonal semi-classic, while the other is a marital thriller that was not released until March 1947, to help further distinguish it […]
“I was in a place that the eye[, the ‘I,’] does not see.” One can hardly take seriously any adult whose favorite film is (except in the Kansas parts) the leaden, insufferably unimaginative The Wizard of Oz (1939), but in the case of megalomaniacal writer-director James Cameron one need not take him seriously to enjoy […]
Dennis Grunes 