Archive for March, 2009
The Prom – I never really got it. But others put a lot of stock-and-trade into the event. This documentary by Racine, Wisconsin natives Ian Rosenberg and Chris Talbott attempts to show us what happens when their hometown ramps up for this annual happening. Racine has a citywide prom where highschoolers from seven Racine highschools [...]
“The 400 Blows” (1959) is Francois Truffaut’s first feature length film. It is very touching and sensitive and is loosely auto-biographical of Truffaut’s life as a young boy. The boy is Antoine Doinel [JEAN-PIERRE LEAUD] and he is shown as a rather average but resorceful person growing up in Paris. The unfortunate thing about him [...]
