Harmless enough, but predictable and unnecessary.
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It's Always Fair Weather 1955
It’s a delightful musical comedy, but how could it not be, with a book by Betty Camden and Adolph Green, direction by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, music by André Previn, and starring Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, and Dolores Gray?
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The Beaches of Agnès 2008
I am bursting with love for this film. It's everything I love; everything life and cinema should be: Paris, the left, music, love, creativity. This is a formally inventive look back on Agnes Varda's great, long life and career (and she is still going strong). My love for it overflows, gushes into this box, this container to fill with words. I felt tears of joy sting my face when, towards the end, I beheld the "house of cinema."
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Last Train Home 2009
This documentary puts us in the shoes of the human beings behind "made in China." It's a universal story, the generation gap, this one set against a backdrop of the world's largest human migration: 130 million migrant workers, who have moved from the countryside to seek work in the city in factories, go home once a year for Chinese New Year. Most of us in the west will never get as deep into China as this film takes us, even…
