“It’s hard to tell that the world we live in is either reality or a dream.” It must be that the third film seen is the charm, or part of a charm; in any case, whereas I rejected Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. . . and Spring (2003) and The Bow (2005) for their extreme cruelty, […]
Monthly Archives: November 2010
The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019 Admission: $10, $8 seniors, $6 students, members free Tel.: +1 (212) 708-9400 Naturally, I am including below the titles of only those films that have yet to be shown in this behemoth film exhibition. Where I have written about a film on […]
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“Are you a girl or a boy?” eight-year-old Meigo/May asks accordianist Chalkie/Diego, who accompanies blind nightclub singer Jing, Meigo’s sister, in lesbian writer-director Zero Chou’s delicate, beautifully acted, exceptionally lovely Piao lang qing chun. This question recurs throughout the tripartite film from Taiwan, whose Mandarin title translates into English as The Drifting Waves of Youth. […]
William Holden has been a favorite of mine since boyhood, with five of his films, I can now see, occasioning his truly superlative acting: The Remarkable Andrew, Sunset Boulevard, The Counterfeit Traitor, The Wild Bunch and Network. (I’m perfectly okay with Holden’s having won a best actor Oscar for his good work in Stalag 17.) […]
Dennis Grunes 