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The film's one-note Welles is a manifestation of a certain mindset that Robbins imposes in the movie's weakest moments, in which the characters expound so directly about art, politics and historical issues that they momentary sacrifice credibility. But the subtler portrayals dominate, and Robbins' direction keeps the...
By the time film reaches its triumphant conclusion--a spontaneous, bare bones production of Blitzstein's musical, in which all of the cast risk their jobs with the Federal Theater for the sake of a single performance--Robbins' purpose in embracing the subject is both abundantly clear and difficult to...
A man sits in the balcony of a courtroom, quietly observing a murder trial. Now and then he jots down a quick note in a spiral pad. He peers down at the Japanese-American defendant and then gazes at the defendant's pretty young wife - his look carrying something more...
It is all too easy to make Snow Falling On Cedars sound like a traditional murder mystery. It is nothing of the kind. If the mystery were the primary element in the film, the emphasis would lie on the information in Ishmael's pocket: what is it, how does it...
Through a dizzying series of flashbacks, we learn of the passionate adolescent love affair between Ishmael and young Hatsue Imada (Youki Kudoh)--now the wife of the accused. We learn how, from the depths of an American internment camp, Hatsue wrote to him breaking off the affair. We observe Ishmael...