A stunning passage graces Tout va bien, a film that reflects on the shift to the hard political right in France following the failed Paris uprising, nationwide strikes and, a few months later, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, all in 1968. It is a set-piece so brilliant that viewers might be forgiven for forgetting that […]
Daily Archives: April 10, 2010
Carol Reed, whose impersonations included Georg Wilhelm Pabst in the underground scenes of The Stars Look Down (1939) and Orson Welles in everything in The Third Man (1949), tried his hand at Hitchcock in between, in Night Train to Munich, a film that borrowed scenarists Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, star Margaret Lockwood, and the […]
The film’s socioeconomic point of departure is exceedingly low: two teenaged Brooklyn friends, Derrick and Tico, man a concession stand on Liberty Island. Theirs are minimum-wage jobs, and after September 11, 2001, they lose even these when Liberty Island is shut down. Meanwhile, Dominican-born Derrick still has an adorable set of twins—his daughter’s name is […]
Dennis Grunes 