Possibly producer-director Robert Wise’s worst film, Odds Against Tomorrow is slack, soft, boring—all that something whose plot revolves around a bank heist, from planning to execution, shouldn’t be. This is a film without a theme, a purpose, a point, although it tries hard, in its last gasp, to whip one up, unconscionably, from what had […]
Daily Archives: May 14, 2010
“We have started a battle we can never win.” Reflecting on the collapse of the radical protest movement that followed Japan’s 1958 treaty renegotiation with the U.S., which threatened to divert Japan from its constitutional course of peace, Nagisa Oshima for the first time dipped into the distant past. Amakusa shiro tokisada, one of cinema’s […]
Dennis Grunes 