The Movies of Vittorio De Sica. This movie was more like. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Which he directed the year before and which also starred Sophia Loren. The film had drama, but the drama was always balanced by lighter moments. It has a a very different tone from the neorealist films of the immediate post-war years. A very good movie by Vittorio De Sica.

Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu are wonderful to watch in this beautifully filmed look at French theater under the German occupation in 1942. The movie is about a theater ownwer, Lucas Steiner, who is Jewish and is forced to hide in the cellar, pretending to have left the country. His wife, Marion, runs the theater and stars in the new production. The leading man, Bernard is in love with her, but she keeps putting him off.

And now for something completely different. Ramin Bahrani leaves the inner city and his cinema verite neo-realistic style and directs a drama about the American Dream gone bad.

Kim Bassinger plays a reporter who interviews people as they arrive at the show. Celebrities march on and off the stage. Tim Robbins and Julia Roberts meet by accident, drink. fight, makeup and have an affair. A murderer is running loose but the fashion world must go no. So many beautiful scenes with the beautiful people, I can see why Altman had trouble cutting it down to the size it needed to be. Should have run at least an hour shorter.

Quotes from Mark Twain and Friends. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. As I would not be a .

The film tells the story of Mr and Mrs Shizuma, and their niece Yasuko, make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima, just after the atomic bomb has dropped.