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The Names of Love
Sara Forestier, a very cute, young French actress who won her country's equivalent of an Oscar for her performance in this delightfully bawdy comedy, infuses "The Names of Love" with an insouciant sexiness and a total lack of embarrassment. She doesn't flaunt her body so much as she does not pay attention to it. If
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This Week’s Wine, May 8, 2011
In Australian slang, a "stickybeak" is like a "nosy parker" or a "busybody" or maybe a "Jerry Berger"–a person whose nose is usually in someone else's business. It is not necessarily a name to put on a wine label, but Australian slang has a style all its own, and while Old Bridge Cellars is an
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The Princess of Montpensier
This review is reprinted from an earlier date because the movie’s opening was delayed With flashing swords and heaving bosoms, we go from battlefields to boudoirs in “The Princess of Montpensier,” based on a 1662 novel about the Wars of Religion, the struggle between French Catholics and Protestants that took up most of the second
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Nenette
"Nenette" is a sultry, 40-year-old redhead, certainly worthy of a movie named after her. She's an orangutan, the longest-living resident of Paris' Jardin des Plantes, or Zoo, and the subject of a fascinating documentary from director Nicolas Philibert, which opens here today. Philibert, working with cinematographer Katell Djian and editor Lea Masson, skips
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Marwencol
Marwencol is a small town in Belgium. When we visit, sometimes it's during World War II, sometimes it's after. Germans and Americans live there, sometimes at war, sometimes at peace. A deeply brain-scarred man, Mark Hogankamp, re-created it in his back yard and lives there. He named the imaginary village for himself and two friends,
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My Tehran For Sale
Filmmakers don't care about "fair and balanced" any more than Fox news does,so "My Tehran for Sale" is an interesting look at popular culture and youthful rebellion in Iran, as seen through the eyes of writer-director Granaz Moussavi. Her sometimes feisty, sometimes tragic film plays tonight (Nov. 16) at 7 at the Tivoli Theatre as
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Today’s Wine, May 16, 2010
Dan and Margaret Duckhorn are celebrating the 35th anniversary of their winery this year, and to introduce some of their new releases–and to show off the glories of some older ones–Margaret visited St. Louis for a tasting one recent afternoon. It was a splendid experience; I've been a fan of the various Duckhorn wines since
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Shirley Valentine
Dazzling. Simply dazzling. That's Teresa Doggett in–and as–"Shirley Valentine," which opened Thursday night as a production of Stray Dog Theatre at Tower Grove Abbey, and she takes the audience on a sea-change ride of human emotion as she searches for herself. Her triumphant performance in the one-woman comedy-drama by Willy Russell, directed delightfully by Edward
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Eric Michael Gillett
Eric Michael Gillett is a cabaret performer with talent, and he obviously believes, stubbornly or courageously–or both–in what he is doing. Of course I'm affected by many years of being who I am, but I felt it a living oxymoron to see a middle-aged man with a neat mustache and goatee, wearing a dark suit
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Neil Young Trunk Show
Decisions on concert movies are the easiest to make for a movie-goer. If you like the group, you'll want to see the movie. After all, you know the kind of music you'll get, and it's cheaper than a concert, though the fidelity of the sound may disappoint. If you don't like the group, wild horses,