Private Confessions

Written by Godfrey Cheshire on January 12, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Private Confessions directed by Liv Ullmann Early in Private Confessions, the latest film written by Ingmar Bergman, Anna Bergman (Pernilla August), a young wife, goes to an elderly clergyman named Jacob (Max von Sydow) to confess that she’s been violating her marriage vows by having an affair with a theology student. “Confession,” though, is a slightly tricky proposition here, since Martin Luther
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The Faculty

Written by Matt Zoller Seitz on January 12, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

The Faculty directed by Robert Rodriguez Hop in the Way Back Machine with me, dear Sherman, and we will revisit 1992. That was a year when hard-luck indie filmmaker stories still seemed fresh, and Robert Rodriguez trumped everybody. The struggling Austin auteur became an international sensation with El Mariachi, an amusing Tex-Mex Western spoof shot for $7000 or thereabouts, designed
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Another Day in Paradise

Written by Armond White on January 12, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Another Day in Paradise directed by Larry Clark Levi’s new tv ad features a pig-faced young actress who might have been in Larry Clark’s odious, factitious debut film Kids. She stares into the camera, bright and insolent, giving an insipid political testimony: “I think you ought to work for what you get. Like a big house, nobody should give that to
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