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...answers let's flash back, like some labyrinthine Alain Resnais epic, to the glory days of foreign-language films--the '50s and '60s. Back then Hollywood was Doris Day and Jerry Lewis on the low side, Tennessee Williams and biblical spectacles on high. Meanwhile, artists in other countries were leading film to a robust maturity: Ingmar Bergman in Sweden, Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard in France, Akira Kurosawa in Japan, Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni in Italy, Luis Bunuel in Spain. As each director found a constituency, U.S. distributors would pick up his earlier films, as well as other...
...Mohun Biswas wants is his own house, but when he marries into the daunting, smothering Tulsi family, he becomes a magnet for misfortune, oppression and humiliation. Set in the Hindu community of postcolonial Trinidad, Mr. Biswas is an epic of persistence and humor, of dignity and dogged self-respect...
Rome: This 100-million dollar epic, along with “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Extras” makes HBO’s Sunday night lineup the best of any night on any channel. An elegant and graphic portrayal of Rome during Julius Caesar’s rise toward emperor, “Rome” vacillates between the political and military intrigue of Caesar and Pompey and the day-to-day trials of two ordinary soldiers from the thirteenth legion. There are wonderful performances all around, highlighted by Polly Walker’s portrayal...
...African Americans to come to terms with the legacy of slavery and the injustices of today. His work stood apart from, and above, nearly everything else in contemporary American theater. While others wrote spare, personal, ironic plays, Wilson's were big, verbose and passionate, brimming with social protest and epic poetry. Offstage, too, he was a maverick, opposing color-blind casting and advocating what some felt was a separatist black theater. Yet his work will endure, for everyone. --By Richard Zoglin
...American President.” As for Larry, could he be animated? Could we get Shrek? It could be a cross between real life and animation, like “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” I think it’d be a romantic comedy of epic proportions...