One of the best, most engrossing and impassioned films to win a best picture Oscar, William Dieterle’s The Life of Emile Zola focuses on author-activist Zola and Alfred Dreyfus, the Army artillery officer who was wrongly accused of passing secrets to the German Embassy and whose cause Zola championed. Dreyfus, found guilty, was condemned to […]
Daily Archives: June 6, 2010
“The real torture was knowing that other people could smoke [smack].” Having viewed the films out of order, I must fix this in my head, because Vanda Duarte, the heroin-addicted woman with a racking cough in No Quarto da Vanda, the tremendous three-hour middle film, is a through-character in Portuguese writer-director Pedro Costa’s Fountaínhas trilogy. […]
Dennis Grunes 