“My God, what have we done?” — Capt. Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, from which Hiroshima was atom-bombed The quiet, meditative calm of the compact Emmy-winning documentary White Light/Black Rain comes from maturity. A survey of the havoc wreaked on humanity by the U.S. atomic bombings of Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki on […]
Daily Archives: March 20, 2010
A vibrant, humane, nerve-jangling political thriller, The Ghost Writer, for which Roman Polanski richly deserved the best director prize he won at Berlin, is based on the novel The Ghost by Robert Harris, to whom, along with Polanski, the superlative script is credited. I know, I know: One cannot call this art; rather, it is […]
The Pillow Book confirms that Peter Greenaway is a reeking director. A visually busy thing, it’s about a young Japanese woman, initially in search of a calligrapher to write on her naked body, who herself ends up writing a book on the naked body of a young linguist and author living in Hong Kong. (Could […]
Dennis Grunes 