Critical Essay by Andrew Sarris
By casting the diminutive, clown-visaged, essentially sexless Giulietta Masina as his prostitute [in Le Notti di Cabiria], Fellini has automatically divorced himself f...
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Lucrecia Martel's La Niña Santa ("The Holy Girl"), from her own screenplay, slithers along as a highly controlled sex comedy that is unusually civilized in comparison to the more prevalent cru...
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Everyone remembers the blowhard on the movie line in Annie Hall. But almost nobody remembers that some of what he says is right.
“We saw the Fellini film,” he begins, and forget the bl...
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Everyone remembers the blowhard on the movie line in Annie Hall. But almost nobody remembers that some of what he says is right.
“We saw the Fellini film,” he begins, and forget the b...
Read more
Critical Essay by Andrew Sarris
Understated Family Drama Lit Up by The Holy Girl's Smile
