Susanne Bier's Brothers, from a screenplay by Anders Thomas Jensen, based on a story by Ms. Bier and Mr. Jensen, turns out to be a Danish film that presents one of the most powerful depictions of a conscience-stricken human being I have ever seen on the screen. Though Brothers is at times unexpectedly harrowing, it Read More
We know it's her job and all, but we thought we'd point out that Hillary is still fighting to direct Homeland Security grants to sparsely populated rural areas. The latest: "Grants to be awarded to Fire Departments in Angola, Central Islip, Dobbs Ferry, Glenham, Great Valley, Marathon, Marion, New Windsor, Niagara Falls, Patterson, Rochester, Read More
Tod William's The Door in the Floor , from his own screenplay and based on John Irving's novel A Widow for One Year , has been hailed by some as the best screen adaptation to date of an Irving novel, and dismissed by others as a dismal failure. I can't say I minded the movie Read More
There is more to summer in the Hamptons than sipping cosmopolitans, hiring the right caterer to serve down-home meat loaf and mashed potatoes in order to look pretentiously unpretentious, spending the equivalent of the annual charity proceeds of UNICEF on basil, and gossiping about Martha Stewart. Sometimes there is real life, with all of the Read More
