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Film: “Elvis”

The success of Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” is peculiar in the sense of being more interesting than the film itself. And not all that interesting anyway, but I’ll try to get full value from it. But first, I’ll say that I’m not sorry I saw the film. There’s real pleasure there, even for for non-Elvis addicts […]

Film: “The Post”

By filmfestsalonFebruary 16, 2018Film Review BlogBen Bradlee, Bob Odenkirk, Bruce Greenwood, Daniel Ellsberg, Katherine Graham, Matthew Rhys, Meryl Streep, Richard Nixon, Stephen Spielberg, Tom Hanks

A number of questions ran through my mind as I watched Steven Spielberg’s exceptionally well-made (no surprise there), celebration of the first amendment. But all of those questions can be reduced to this one: Why? The “Post” of the title is the Washington Post, and the heroic moment the film celebrates is its publication of […]