The Party, renegade Briton Sally Potter’s first film in six years, is shot in a flat and unpretty black-and-white — no luminous chiaroscuro here. Rather, it’s a harsh and dressed-down cheapie, populated by actors whose drooping faces and worry lines betray minimal makeup. It reflects of a time in movie history when directors eschewed color for economy, not artistry. Shot … [Read more...]
‘Denial’: An easy victory over evil thought
It was merely 16 years ago that the existence of the Holocaust was put on trial in England. Wait, what? It sounds preposterous, but it happened: David Irving, a British World War II historian turned Holocaust denier, filed a high-profile libel suit against Penguin Books and American scholar Deborah Lipstadt, who called Irving what he was in her 1993 book Denying the … [Read more...]