dance critic and cineaste Mindy Aloff has graciously contributed this entry From China and Hong Kong, this Homeric black-and-white feature, originally titled Nanjing! Nanjing!, dramatizes the Japanese army’s 1937-38 invasion and destruction of what was then China’s capital city, an event sometimes referred to as “the rape of Nanking,” one of the twentieth century’s most […]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
For me, the two highlights of the 1970s phase of Peter Bogdanovich’s filmmaking career are At Long Last Love starring then-lover and muse Cybill Shepherd and the gritty, atmospheric post-Cybill Saint Jack (1979) starring wonderful Ben Gazzara. A financial flop in its day, the first of these has often been ridiculed, as though writer-director Bogdanovich […]
Dennis Grunes 