Superficial, somewhat silly though increasingly entertaining comical thriller, mildly directed by Douglas Sirk, in which an American, who works in a London dance hall, helps Scotland Yard identify and catch a serial killer of women on the loose by offering herself up as whoever’s next victim. The killer, we learn, is an avid reader of […]
Daily Archives: July 20, 2012
Beauteous, powerful, politically incendiary, Vtáčkovia, siroty a blázni—its Slovak title is widely translated as Birds, Orphans and Fools—was made in Czechoslovakia, with French assistance, by writer-director Juraj Jakubisko, I believe, in the midst of the Soviet invasion of 1968. (Karol Sidon co-authored the script with Jakubisko.) The apocalyptic film was suppressed for more than twenty […]
Dennis Grunes 