With all the hubbub in Oliver Stone’s W, it might be easy to miss the key line in it. That would be the one delivered by W himself. He’s having a heart-to-heart with the clergyman who is shepherding him through his born-again experience. In a moment of anguish, he bemoans the fact that people just… Read More »
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WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS
The death of one person is a tragedy, so the saying goes, but the death of a million people is a statistic. This is the model Oliver Stone has chosen for his latest history lesson for the masses, WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS, an explication of why the world financial markets collapsed in 2008. By… Read More »
ALEXANDER
As is true of his other films, there is much to be said about Oliver Stones ALEXANDER. Unfortunately, in this case, little of it is good. This is not so much a film as an amorphous blob that has suffocated the idea of a film somewhere within its vast and gooey structure. There is a… Read More »
WORLD TRADE CENTER
In this offering from the fecund imagination of Oliver Stone there is no hyperbole, no bombast, and no vast paranoid conspiracy. Instead, with World Trade Center, he has turned his considerable gifts, and using actual events, to recreate what it was like to be at Ground Zero, literally and figuratively, on the day that everything… Read More »