By Lisa Rosen
Los Angeles Times Excerpt, The Envelope
November 19, 2008
Mike Leigh's latest film, " Happy-Go-Lucky," centers on the unsinkable Poppy Cross, a teacher who tries to make everyone around her happier. It is an effort rebuffed by some, welcomed by others and...
By Michael Wilmington
Movie City News Excerpt
November 8, 2008
A movie adapted from a children's book set in the Holocaust sounds like a risky proposition - though teenager Anne Frank's Diary remains our best-loved chronicle of that tragic, bloody period. But Mark...
By Sheri Linden
Los Angeles Times Excerpt
November 7, 2008
Writer-director Mark Herman took on tough material when he chose to adapt "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas." The 2006 young adult novel by John Boyne cleaves to a young boy's point of view -- and the boy's...
By Rober Ebert
rogerebert.com Excerpt
November 5, 2008
Mark Herman's "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" depends for its powerful impact on why, and when, it transfers the film's point of view. For almost all of the way, we see events through the eyes of a bright, plucky...
By Rex Reed
The New York Observer Excerpt
November 4, 2008
At the movies, as in life, there is nothing more harrowing to think about or painful to observe than children in peril. At a time when a lot of people will not go near a film about the Holocaust, it's quite brave...
Vera Farmiga plays a dutiful German wife and mother oblivious to Nazi horrors in THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS. Here, the award-winning actress of Down to the Bone discusses her research on Hitler's women, the allure of period...
By Joe Klein
TIME.com Excerpt, Swampland
November 2, 2008
The polls are holding, not tightening, it seems. McCain appeared on Saturday Night Live in a skit that appeared to be a concession to the inevitable. And the mood of many of my esteemed colleagues appears to be...
