Written in collaboration with psychiatrist Massimo Fagioli, Marco Bellocchio’s La condanna matches key to key to suggest the extent to which architect Lorenzo Colajanni’s rape of art student Sandra Celestini, inside the locked Farnese Castle art gallery at night, may also have been a kind of collaboration. At closing time, having exited with her class […]
Daily Archives: May 18, 2010
We’ve been told that first-time writer-director Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart, from Thomas Cobb’s 1987 novel, was headed straight to DVD or cable television before its rescue by Searchlight Fox. This account could be apocryphal, but its charm suits the film itself, for all its clichés a thoroughly engrossing drama about a 57-year-old country-&-western singer who, […]
Philip Baker Hall’s recognizable face is attached to a largely unrecognizable name; for decades Hall has been one of our best character actors. Rarely does Hall get a lead role, as he brilliantly did as President Nixon in Robert Altman’s Secret Honor (1984), the most substantial by far of the Nixon-films. In Duck, written and […]
Dennis Grunes 