Saturday, March 23, 2013
Friday, March 22, 2013
First Lines: Ivo Andric - The Bridge on the Drina
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For the greater part of its course the river Drina flows through narrow gorges between steep mountains or through deep ravines with precipitous banks.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
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First Lines: Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago
On they went, singing 'Eternal Memory', and whenever they stopped, the sound of their feet, the horses and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
A father and daughter isolated on an island off the East Coast and living on a once thriving commune grapple with the limits of family and sexuality.
Alternately gripping and bewildering this is -despite having a far-fetched premise - a never tedious character study thanks to an excellent cast and intelligent direction.
Maltin *1/2: "Pretentious claptrap...Attempt at an ethereal fable is clunky from the word go, despite the presence of such solid actors as Day-Lewis, husband of the film's writer-director."
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
First Lines: Albert Camus - The Plague
The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194- at Oran.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Shoot Out (1971)
A former bank robber searches for his double crossing partner who left him for dead, while having to look after a 6 year old girl.
An old-fashioned Western pairing an old-school outlaw with a child has some lengths, but is fairly entertaining and offers some quite nasty villains.
Halliwell (no star): "Routine, flatly-handled revenge Western."
Maltin **: "Same producer, director and screenwriter of TRUE GRIT in another Western about cowboy and little girl. Formula doesn't work; in spite of title, film has too much talk and not enough action."
Thr3e (2006)
Innocent lives hang on the whim of an elusive psychopathic murderer whose strange riddles and impossible timelines force three people into a mission to end the game before one or all of them die.
Suspenseful and fast-paced psycho thriller marred by a messy plot and a ridiculous ending.