Critical Essay by James Kerans
Above all, in La Grande Illusion, we find lucidity and innocence. We find these qualities everywhere in Renoir, but never under such stress, for here they are not only ...
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Critical Essay by Frank S. Nugent
Surprisingly enough, in these combustible times, the French have produced a war film under the title "Grand Illusion."… [It] serves to warn the ...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
[When La Grande Illusion was made,] the film was a warning of the futility of war in the face of growing wars, an anatomy of the upheaval of 1914–1918 to sh...
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Cards sailed through the air to the rhythm of Chopin, and a rabbit _ predictably _ was pulled out of a hat as contestants from China to the Virgin Islands on Monday kicked off the World Champi...
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I interviewed Wayne Barrett, whose new book, Grand Illusion, tries to strip Rudy Giuliani of his post-9/11 mythic stature. Barrett interviewed people in the Giuliani administration who said the '93...
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Every time a saintly local auteur sells his townhouse to a moneyman (and below asking price), a little part of New York weeps. But Martin Scorsese sold his five-bedroom townhouse at 217 East 62nd S...
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Rarely does the endorsement of a presidential candidate make any national im–pression, especially when offered by a retired local politician. Former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean may well dis...
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If that sounds like the same primitive mind-set that created our current disaster, then consider yourself forewarned. Mr. Giuliani is a fervent admirer of George W. Bush, whose election he consider...
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As I was saying, I don’t go to Oprah Winfrey for the truth. I go to the theater instead. That fragile, fantastic thing we call the theater has always seemed to me to be the last place on eart...
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As I was saying, I don’t go to Oprah Winfrey for the truth. I go to the theater instead. That fragile, fantastic thing we call the theater has always seemed to me to be the last place on eart...
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Woody Allen’s Match Point, from his own screenplay, was reportedly well received in Cannes earlier this year, especially (and not surprisingly) by the French critics. It was less well receive...
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Woody Allen’s Match Point, from his own screenplay, was reportedly well received in Cannes earlier this year, especially (and not surprisingly) by the French critics. It was less well receiv...
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Critical Essay by James Kerans
Magicians Battle It Out for World Title
