For a moment, Shira’s (Hadas Yaron) dream man stands opposite her, a rabbi’s son nervously using the tzitzit sticking out from beneath his vest to polish his specs. All this changes when her older sister dies in childbirth and their mother (Irit Sheleg), desperate to maintain control over her surviving …
Adapted from Sandra Schulberg’s monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood – brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg – serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion …
Annette Bening stars as the sadly forgotten Hollywood bad girl, Gloria Grahame, an actress whose assertive sensuality lit up the screen in such memorable films as It's a Wonderful Life, The Big Heat, and The Bad and the Beautiful, for which she took home a deserved supporting-actress Oscar. Nobody looks …
An act of scholarship: re-examining a can of unedited Nazi-propaganda footage, some of it patently staged, of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, an hour’s worth of ghostly images of people long gone, seemingly emphasizing the contrasts of poverty and luxury, but overall of mysterious purpose. (It is, more than anything …
Valued assistant or obsequious stooge? Tony Zierra’s documentary answers the question. On the surface, Leon Vitale was to Stanley Kubrick what Jilly Rizzo was to Frank Sinatra: a camp-following aide-de-camp, always eager to empty the boss’s ashtrays or gratefully accept another twenty lashes from his master’s flailing tongue. (According to …
We open with a quote from Primo Levi, an Auschwitz survivor, that couldn’t be more pertinent if it were spoken today: “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.” …
A frosted-haired, bug-cute psychotherapist (Richard Gere) gets sucked into a quag of incest, infidelity, "pathological intoxication," murder, sotto voce dialogue, fat lips (Uma Thurman's), fatter lips (Kim Basinger's), shadows, fog, blue light. George Fenton's musical score tries hard to make you think of Hitchcock, by way of Bernard Herrmann. Perhaps …
The USS Nimitz, on routine maneuvers in the Pacific, encounters a bit of time turbulence, so to call it, and emerges on the other side the day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, with a full arsenal of nuclear-age armaments and a chance to rewrite the history books. "It …
The feature debut of writer-director Omar Naïm imagines a future world in which one out of every twenty citizens has been fitted before birth with a Zoe Implant, a sort of lifelong built-in camcorder, and in which a highly trained "cutter" will be commissioned after death to edit the footage …
To the chain of chain-reaction predestined deaths — fourth installment in the series, even numbers directed by David R. Ellis — is added the amenity of 3-D, which transforms the people into 2-D paper dolls slotted into the middle distance, air in front and air behind. A lot of gore, …
A premonition again cheats Death, and Death again sets out to recoup his losses. Slapsticky shocker, with carefully and callously constructed chain reactions leading to ludicrously gruesome demises. Very little in between. With Ali Larter, A.J. Cook, Michael Landes; directed by David R. Kelly.
Alex is boarding his plane to France on a school trip, when he suddenly gets a premonition that the plane will explode. When Alex and a group of students are thrown off the plane, to their horror, the plane does in fact explode. Alex must now work out Death's plan, …
A premonition again cheats Death, and Death again sets out to recoup his losses. Slapsticky shocker, with carefully and callously constructed chain reactions leading to ludicrously gruesome demises. Very little in between. With Ali Larter, A.J. Cook, Michael Landes; directed by David R. Kelly.