The growing pains, the lead-footedness, and the outright gaffes of early sound moviemaking are bullyingly mocked in a movie that is itself a faultless display of cinematic and choreographic razzle-dazzle. One of the most thoroughly satisfying of the MGM musicals, most thoroughly of all during the dance number where Donald …
The growing pains, the lead-footedness, and the outright gaffes of early sound moviemaking are bullyingly mocked in a movie that is itself a faultless display of cinematic and choreographic razzle-dazzle. One of the most thoroughly satisfying of the MGM musicals, most thoroughly of all during the dance number where Donald …
Yasujiro Ozu, sometimes called the most Japanese of Japanese directors and sometimes (usually at the same time) called the most universal, transforms an elderly couple's spoiled vacation into a lament for the deteriorating family unit in modern Japan. What could easily have seemed like whining, crabbing, or other symptoms of …
Possibly De Sica's best work (he thought so himself), a neo-realist Little Man tearjerker about a dignified old pauper trying to keep his head above the subsistence level and trying not to drag his beloved dog down with him. If this proves more effective at jerking tears than his better-known …