Peter Murmann

The Great Beauty

No Comments 22 March 2015

If you want to see a film that is a genuine piece of art, you could not go wrong with The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza). Many European attempts to make an “artistic” rather than “commercial” film fail miserably. Breaking the tradition, experimentation for the sake of experimenting often becomes the center of these efforts rather than giving the viewer something new that does not feel artificial and contrived and is enjoyable to watch.

Diary

I can feel your pain

No Comments 22 March 2015

I am so sympathetic to this little fellow.

Movies, Drama

Wilde

No Comments 21 March 2015

If I ever were to teach at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, I now have an idea for my very first seminar. I would have students compare the script for Wild and for The Theory of Everything.