Tag Archives: Joyce Glasser

Rome, Open City. A great Italian war film

Rome, Open City. A great Italian war film

ROME, OPEN CITY (1945 Re-Issue) opens at the BFI Southbank and selected art house cinemas nationwide from March 7, 2014 If Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City is not one of the greatest films ever ma ...
A refreshed old favourite in Funny Face

A refreshed old favourite in Funny Face

Funny Face, Director Stanley Donen’s delightful musical romcom from 1957, is not as dated as it may seem at first glance. The costumes by Edith Head and Givenchy might not be today’s fashion, but they ...
A cinematic rarity in We Are What We Are

A cinematic rarity in We Are What We Are

Here is a cinema rarity: an American remake that surpasses the foreign language original. In my review of Mexican Director’s Jorge Michel Grau’s Somos Lo Que Hay (We are What We Are) I wrote that the ...