Combining whimsy and pathos, fantasy and fatality, Iranian Kurd Bahman Ghobadi’s fourth feature, Niwemang, is the sort of thing to divide audiences. To some, Old Mamo’s premonitions of his own death are liable to seem farfetched and contrived; I kept thinking of John Farrow’s dark, silly Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948), from Cornell Woolrich, […]
Daily Archives: January 25, 2010
Again, this is one man’s opinion at a particular moment on a particular day. The first performance noted is my favorite of the decade, while the subsequent nine performances are listed in alphabetical order by the actors’ last names. 1. Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan, 1989). The five most brilliant performances to be […]
At least these are the ten with which I have come up on the morning of January 25, 2010. I begin with what I consider, hands down, to be the decade’s most wonderful, most complete performance. Thereafter, I list the remaining nine performances by actor in alphabetical order. 1. Yume (Dreams), by Akira Kurosawa and […]
Dennis Grunes 