“The most difficult hours of the night begin. . . .” — narrator In 1953 Cesare Zavattini produced L’amore in città, which comprises six short films, each by a different filmmaker, in one instance, two filmmakers, one of them Zavattini, who also contributed to the scripts of all but one of the films. The “city” […]
Monthly Archives: October 2010
I did not care for writer-director Karin Albou’s first feature, La petite Jérusalem (2005), and her oh-so-sensitive follow-up, Le chant des mariées, dispirited me. Central is the close friendship between two teenaged girls, one Jewish and the other Muslim, which is stressed by their mutual envy and the onslaught of Nazi propaganda during the German […]
In 1953 Cesare Zavattini produced L’amore in città, which comprises six short films, each by a different filmmaker, in one instance, two filmmakers, one of them Zavattini, who also contributed to the scripts of all but one of the films. The “city” is contemporary Rome. Michelangelo Antonioni wrings from the omnibus film’s overarching theme of […]
In the late fifties, Hollywood glamourpuss Lana Turner, once the “sweater girl” and “the girl next door,” became embroiled in a scandal involving the stabbing death of boyfriend Johnny Stompanato, an enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen, presumably by Turner’s 15-year-old daughter. An inquest determined the motive as self-defense, but rumors arose that the girl, who […]
There is genuine merit to Children of Invention, the first, digitally videographed feature by a writer-director who has made several short films: Chicago-born, Boston area-raised, New York-based Tze Chun, whom Filmmaker magazine named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2007, and who is set to direct, in part, the film of […]
Dennis Grunes 