The Fuehrer’s Filmmaker by Richard Grenier “I think the Germans have been too tough on her,” I heard a woman behind me say as we left…
Enter the Chinese by Richard Grenier The word “Chinese” has recently acquired an odd dissonance in the movie world.
In the Name of the IRA by Richard Grenier In the midst of his highly publicized 48-hour American visit, Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fein, the political wing of…
Clint Eastwood Goes PC by Richard Grenier Almost exactly ten years ago, I published an article on Clint Eastwood in COMMENTARY entitled “The World's Favorite Movie Star.”1
Society & Edith Wharton by Richard Grenier In 1920, when The Age of Innocence was published, Edith Wharton stood at the pinnacle of her reputation as the…
Hollywood’s Holy Grail by Richard Grenier Hollywood has not only made a movie about the legendary medieval Fisher King, ruler of T.S. Eliot's bleak, desolate Waste…
Killer Bimbos by Richard Grenier A hollywood joke of only a few years back ran, “She played the female lead in the The Sands of…
Spike Lee Fever by Richard Grenier In sharp contrast to the hyperventilated reception that has greeted Spike Lee's new movie Jungle Fever in the bien-pensant national…
Indian Love Call by Richard Grenier “If you fly over this land now,” said the actor and director Kevin Costner while shooting Dances With Wolves in…
Truffaut & Other Auteurs by Richard Grenier Who is the author of a movie? What is an "auteur," anyway? What was in the mind of the late…
Eddie Murphy, American by Richard Grenier If the world of entertainment is any guide, something rather large is happening on the American racial scene. In recent…