“Our work will end here tomorrow.” Someone on the Internet Movie Database identified this film as one of his ten favorites, possibly even among the top five, intriguing me. I had seen two other films by Yôji Yamada, A Distant Cry from Spring (1980), which I like a lot, and Twilight Samurai (2002), which I […]
Daily Archives: May 11, 2010
Populated by both British and Hungarian actors, Zoltán Fábri’s A pál-utcai fiúk, nominated for an Oscar as best foreign-language film, is a joint production of Hungary and the U.S. based on the novel by Ferenc Molnár that was first published in 1906. Like Molnár’s book, the film is anti-nationalism, anti-militarism, antiwar, although its conclusion, which […]
Dennis Grunes 