Alviro-Mario Fantini
That they were both nominated for Best Picture of 2012 in the Academy Awards may obscure the fact that Life of Pi is in one essential respect, at least, the opposite of Amour. In the latter film, Michael Haneke is…
Writing on The American Spectator’s website in December, Mark Tooley expressed his disgust with Roger Michell and Richard Nelson’s Hyde Park on Hudson, calling it not only unhistorical, which it was, but also “trash”—which it also was. But the realization…
It’s a pity that, culturally, we seem to have closed the book on melodrama. The Wikipedia entry for the word states flatly that “Melodrama has left the Western scene in television and movies,” although it is said to be “still…
The fourth major character in Michael Haneke’s Amour, after the elderly couple played by Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva and their daughter, Eva (Isabelle Huppert), is the Parisian flat where the couple, Georges and Anne, have apparently lived for decades….
Last Friday Bolivian president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada left a letter of resignation on his desk in the presidential palace before he and his family fled the country for Miami via Santa Cruz. It was a disgraceful way for a…
