From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warning: This film review will reveal the surprise ending of Woody Allen's latest film.
Great, now I don't have to watch the thing :)
... Dreiser was a stern critic of the wealthy and even joined the Communist Party at the very end of his life. ...
No novelist, IMO, captures the savagery of American business better than Dreiser. His character Frank Cowperwood -- an arch-conniver who is the protagonist of the trilogy The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic and who was based on Charles T. Yerkes, the tycoon who built the Chicago streetcar system -- is an entrepreneurial sociopath who would feel quite at home among the mega-machinations of the contemporary US business scene.
... the films of Stanley Kubrick ... combined formal elegance with a studious refusal to moralize.
Actually, I can't imagine a movie more incandescent with moral outrage than Kubrick's Paths of Glory, one of the greatest antiwar films ever. Carl
