Thursday, October 22 2009
Homer and Langley by E. L. Doctorow
In this book, E. L. Doctorow is like a great magician trying to make a monumental illusion out of a street corner shell game, just to prove that he can.
Friday, October 3 2008
In the Land of the Blind
Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Jose Saramago’s Blindness fails because the source material doesn’t easily lend itself to cinema, and because the filmmaker is clearly out of his depth.
