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Alice? Alice? There are some novels that cannot, or should not, be filmed – Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World springs to mind, and Tim Burton’s archetypally dark, visually stirring but emotionally hollow adaptation of Lewis Caroll’s journey down the rabbit hole seems to prove that Alice in Wonderland belongs in the same category. Not, it must be [...] Love and war This is my all-time favourite feel-good, feel-sad, feel-just-pretty-darn-emotional movie. The cast of characters is so alive, you’ll be whisked away in seconds to Britain at war and find yourself hanging on every twist and turn in the tales of three American soldiers who fall in love with local girls as they train for [...] Benito Mussolini – what a fascist! And I’m not talking only about his political ideology, writes Gerald Loftus. Watch and learn The full and rather clumsy title of Lee Daniels’ movie is Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Quite why Sapphire is name-checked, I have no idea, unless it was a contractual obligation. Rather like all the tunes in the charts where we get Boring Song by Nobody-I-Know featuring Some-Other-Nobody. It’s just [...] Rings a Belle? So, it was 39 years on, and someone decided to provide a follow-up to the classic cult film from Luis Buñuel, Belle de Jour (1967), without Catherine Deneuve returning to the role of Séverine that she made legendary. Instead of Bunuel’s surrealism, we are shown how people change. Henri Husson (Michel Piccoli, who [...] A worthy try Certainly, he’s a director in vogue. Clint Eastwood has made a remarkable transition over the years from the spaghetti-western, moody-strong-silent type and amoral urban avengers that characterized his earlier roles, as well as the broad (though thrilling) sweeps of his first directorial efforts, such as Play Misty For Me (1970) and High Plains [...] No regrets Some films sort of sneak up on you – while I had obviously heard of singer Édith Piaf before watching Olivier Dahan’s La môme (2007) and while I was aware that, despite her remarkable voice, nearly everything she sang sounded very, very depressing, I had not the first clue concerning the extraordinary life led [...] Not quite a monarch, but never the knave There is a lot written about Cameron Crowe’s 2005 outing Elizabethtown that is negative, rubbishing the film and saying that all of it is bad. But this is wrong, as it is better than many critics have given it credit for. The photography is as fine as in [...] Put doubts aside German cinema and I have never seen eye-to-eye. I don’t really get why this is – I am not a man who is fearful of the odd subtitle. If a non-English-language DVD is to be found in my player, it will almost certainly not have dialogue in German. And yet, nearly every time [...] |
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