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22 July 2009 9:54 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Within the opening scenes of A Dog of Flanders my hand was already reaching for the fast-forward button. As I take my job as a critic and writer seriously, I held back, and I’m very glad I did. What was initially beating me over the head with its half-century-old cinematic sensibilities quickly drew me in and got a great emotional response out of me, like few films of the era can.

The movie’s about a kid, Nello (David Ladd), who finds a beaten dog and nurses him back to health. He lives an exceptionally poor life with his grandfather (Donald Crisp), making what little living they can by selling milk for farmers. Nello has dreams of being an artist, and as we soon find out, he also has exceptional ability. But with three mouths to feed now there’s obviously no money for art supplies, so he paints with iodine, »

- Saul Berenbaum

13 April 2009 3:36 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

April Showers @ 11 Pm all month long

Donald Crisp gets the old school shower treatment from Sara Allgood in How Green Was My Valley (Best Picture win 1941) while their dirty dirty* boys look on. (Robert Redford also did this manual labor shower trick for Meryl Streep in Out of Africa but he was more gentle/sexy about it. Sara is hardcore, she just douses her man).

This is a totally green way to clean. Your shower water becomes your bath water. Voila!

*What?!? They're coal miners. »

- NATHANIEL R

2 articles from 2009