One of Asia’s most vital staple foods is followed from planting to harvesting in director / cinematographer Uruphong Raksasad’s visual tone poem. A hefty chunk of the film’s tight running time is devoted to harvest festivals, with events spanning bull races, expansive dances, singing, religious offerings, and an insane set of fireworks…
What’s remarkable about Rush is although the racing scenes really don’t evolve into extended montages until the end, the drama as scripted by Peter Morgan (Frost / Nixon, The Queen) is rock solid, especially the dialogue, which captures the attitude and nastiness of rival racers James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl)…
Robert Rossen’s film adaptation reportedly drifts a little from the narrative of Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the rise and terminal fall of corrupt Louisiana Governor Willie Stark…
For his second film, Ken Burns – The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001) – chose to document the life and death of Huey P. Long, a Louisiana Governor and U.S. Senator who was assassinated in 1935 when his unrelenting demagoguery caught up with him…
Featuring music and lyrics by Lionel Bart, Oliver! debuted in 1960 before moving from Britain to the States in 1962, where it was frequently revived for audiences never tiring of its popular songs. Bart’s lyrics are extremely witty, and many of the songs became pop culture classics…
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