This biographical documentary is one minute under three and a half hours long. I had already ordered an […]
Category: True story/biopic
‘This feature-length biographical documentary, made last year to mark the 50th anniversary of his death, charts his progress from child performer in the pre-screen days to becoming, by the age of thirty, the highest-paid writer in the world and a star, as they say, of stage and screen. ‘
Golda was completed and released by August 2023, thus predating the murderous raid by Hamas terrorists on October 7th of that year. If you are of the view that Israel has no right to exist, you might be unsympathetic on the Big Picture, but you’d have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by this depiction of an old woman having to make terrible decisions in the worst crisis she and her country had ever faced.
“My quibble with Bradley Cooper’s work is that Maestro is more a showcase of his ability to do a good Leonard Bernstein impression than it is a serious biopic about this towering figure of 20th century music.”
“Kingsley Ben Adir…absolutely nails Marley’s charisma, his physical gestures, his stage moves and of course that charming accent for which I am a total sucker.”
Napoleon was a flawed character – a political and military genius who tended to confuse his personal ambition with the overall interests of France. His was a glorious rise to power and achievement followed by a downfall due to his inability to know his own limitations. Scott’s Napoleon flattens this grand trajectory. But if you don’t give us the highs, you miss the drama and the tragedy of the lows. Napoleon should have been a more moving and thrilling movie than it was.
Everyone knows Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen’s modern hymn to spirituality. Not many people know all the words (I know […]
This is the movie Tom Hanks was shooting in Australia when he and his wife got Covid in […]
In 1961, a portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco Goya was stolen from the National Gallery […]
The setting is Berlin in the early days of WWII. The people are rejoicing at the news that […]