Articles by Elizabeth Bailey

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Peter Webber

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

Based on a popular novel by Tracy Chevalier, this film is named for the eponymous oil painting by the 17th century Dutch painter Jan Vermee...

9/11/01

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2003

In this wide-ranging project, 12 short films add up to more than the sum of their parts. With a deft use of contrast, 9/11/01 opens in Iran...

Shake It All About

Hella Joof

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2003

Imagine the worst aspects of Four Weddings and a Funeral, combined with those of Italian For Beginners and throw in a soupcon of La Cage au...

Small Voices

Gil M. Portes

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

Small Voices is a genre film in the small triumphs over great adversity mould. Set in a poor rural community in the Philippines, it follows...

Walking on Water

Tony Ayres

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2003

To quote from the press release, "Walking on Water is a refreshingly unsentimental film about how people deal with loss and grief." If this...

Lawless Heart

Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger

PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

It's no longer new telling a story from multiple viewpoints, so the structure of Lawless Heart can't entice us with any lawlessness in narr...

Man on the Train

Patrice Leconte

PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

Man on the Train, the latest film by prolific French filmmaker Patrice Leconte, is a rich fusion of opposites. A film about destiny and dea...

If By Chance

Alessandro d'Alatri

PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

Haven't they heard of marriage counsellors in Italy? Or how about script doctors? Not in the world of young Milanese arts professionals acc...