Amelie Poulain lives and works in Montmartre, but doesn’t connect very deeply with other people. It’s delightful, and it remains one of the two or three best introductions to foreign films for the subtitle-phobic. But it’s a gateway drug to world cinema, and if you like it, move on to the harder stuff.
I’ve had many people tell me I should watch Zoolander, but I didn’t for a long time because I dislike Ben Stiller and figured I would thus hate the film. Maybe my low expectations worked in this case, because I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. Stiller is Derek Zoolander, a supermodel whose [...]
Wow. It’s getting more and more rare for a movie to affect me so much that I cannot do anything but sit and stare at the screen for minutes after the credits end. That a made-for-TV film would do that, much less one that originally appeared on HBO, is even more surprising. Wit, from the [...]
