ITALIANS RE-FIGHT WORLD WAR II IN FILM Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy in 1922, more than a decade before Hitler. That he made the trains run on time was quite enough to inspire praise from ordinary Italians, but for the Americans and British living in Florence one might imagine that a lack of […]
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POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY MEETING The Board of Directors of the Political Film Society will hold a meeting at 8481 Allenwood Road, Los Angeles, on June 19 at 7 p.m., primarily to reword legal documents to satisfy IRS regarding the Society’s application to be a tax-exempt organization. ITALIANS RE-FIGHT WORLD WAR II IN FILM Benito Mussolini
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Life, directed by Ted Demme, presents a different Mississippi—where black men are imprisoned whether guilty or otherwise. Different except in one fascinating respect—Ned Beatty is again cast as an unprejudiced white prison superintendent. The film focuses on two inmates of a prison farm, played by Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, New Yorkers in Mississippi to
In Cookie’s Fortune, director Robert Altman takes us to Holly Springs, Mississippi (a town halfway between Memphis and Tupelo) for a mystery caper. Although filmviewers and two of the actors know who is responsible for a death, the police do not, but the real mysteries are wrapped up in the Faulknerian characters, their foibles, and
POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY MEETING On Saturday, June 5, the Political Film Society will hold a meeting at 7 p.m. to reword legal documents in response to a letter from IRS regarding the Society’s application to be a tax-exempt organization. The meeting, to be held at 8481 Allenwood Road, Los Angeles, is open to all. GOOD
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THREE SEASONS IS NOMINATED FOR BEST FILM EXPOSÉ OF 1999 With the war in Yugoslavia rapidly turning a modern country into a Third World nation, release of Three Seasons, a film about contemporary Vietnam, seems unusually well timed. Despite the fact that the United States was allied with Ho Chi Minh during World War II,
THREE SEASONS IS NOMINATED FOR BEST FILM EXPOSÉ OF 1999 With the war in Yugoslavia rapidly turning a modern country into a Third World nation, release of Three Seasons, a film about contemporary Vietnam, seems unusually well timed. Despite the fact that the United States was allied with Ho Chi Minh during World War II,
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The School of Flesh, the English translation of the film L’Ecole de la Chair, is based on a novel not yet translated into English by Yukio Mishima, whose gay proclivities came to an end though suicide in 1970. The film, released in France in 1998 and shoehorned into art theatres in the United States in
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CLASS, RACE, AND SEXUAL PREFERENCES CLASH IN A FRENCH FILM The School of Flesh, the English translation of the film L’Ecole de la Chair, is based on a novel not yet translated into English by Yukio Mishima, whose gay proclivities came to an end though suicide in 1970. The film, released in France in 1998
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In the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, Queen Elizabeth is played by Judi Dench, who won an Oscar® for best supporting actress. The premise of the film is much less serious than Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen, namely, that Shakespeare must have written love sonnets and the play Romeo and Juliet because he was himself in
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