published by Barry Paris on November 6, 2013 - 12:00am
By way of further forays in psychosexual pathology, there's "The Truth About Emanuel," a thriller by Italian-American director Francesca Gregorini. Its original title was evidently "Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes," but it might better have been called "Up All Night with the Living Dead Baby."
published by Barry Paris on November 6, 2013 - 12:00am
"The Girl From the Wardrobe" -- a terrific new cutting-edge film that concerns love between the neurologically impaired -- is Polish writer-director Bodo Kox's seriocomic tale of three young misfits, each lonely and alienated in a different way.
published by Barry Paris on October 11, 2013 - 12:00am
American film noir doesn't get any better -- or darker -- than "The Sweet Smell of Success." Neither do Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis in the most wonderfully despicable roles of their careers.
published by Barry Paris on October 3, 2013 - 12:00am
In a war-torn Afghani village near Kabul, the worried young wife keeps a vigil over her wounded husband, who lies silently listening to her---maybe.He doesn’t have much choice.He’s in a comatose, vegetative state resulting from a bullet to the neck.