The Girl in the Cafe is one of those wonderful, little-heard of films that you nearly click away from, the start is so slow, with such eye-averting awkwardness. Then it … [Keep reading >>]
Ingrid Bergman looks her fabled, youthful best and Charles Boyer dark and dashing as her handsome, older lover in The Arch of Triumph a forgotten minor gem of WW II … [Keep reading >>]
Around our house there are two streams of movie selections: dark, meaningful films, preferably by “auteurs,” about people overcoming terrible odds immersed in worldly cruelty, or those that are light … [Keep reading >>]
Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it– around the world. It is absolutely the case that most people welcome immigrants when … [Keep reading >>]
The incredible, beautiful green of trees, grasses and rice against the blue rivers, blue skies and white clouds at the beginning of Buffalo Boy, seem like postcards of paradise. Bucolic … [Keep reading >>]
Many years ago I translated The Manuscript of a Crow, a short story by Spanish author Max Aub, the protagonist of which was a crow relating its observations of human … [Keep reading >>]
I rushed home last night to watch the Egyptian movie “The Yacoubian Building,” just arrived from Netflix. It was released in 2006, based on Alaa Al Aswany’s 2002 novel of … [Keep reading >>]
The King’s Speech, Hollywood’s moving story of how King George VI of England was helped to overcome a debilitating stutter by an unorthodox Australian, ascended the throne when his older … [Keep reading >>]
David Carr, in his Media column of the NY Times praised The Company Men, with Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, and Chris Cooper last week as staring straight at a … [Keep reading >>]
I’ll just add my vote to all the others as to the worth of The King’s Speech, Tom Hooper’s film about Britain’s wartime King George VI who not only … [Keep reading >>]
Two good movies for you this coming week, both very good stories about working folks near the bottom of the ladder, both about love and friendship and connection. Both quiet, … [Keep reading >>]
I haven’t seen Made in Dagenham but I have it on good authority, my wife, who saw it at the Mill Valley Film Festival and loved it, that it is … [Keep reading >>]
