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 Down in the Delta, Hope Is a Stranger: 'Ballast'
By S. JAMES SNYDER
September 30, 2008
Unlike so many films about black communities that tend to feel exaggerated or plain offensive, Lance Hammer's "Ballast" is honest and respectful of its characters and the painful space they inhabit.
'Che': It's a Long Story
Surveying a Week of Stories
Paul Newman, Actor, Succumbs to Cancer at 83
New York Film Festival Goes Around the World and Back
NYFF Opens Albert Lewin's Magic Box
A British Artist Plumbs the Politics of Hunger
Barbet Schroeder Can't Be Killed
'The Lucky Ones': Nothing Salves the Soul Like a Road Trip
'Eagle Eye': Let It Go to Voicemail
A Spike in the War Chest
If You Can't Punch Someone, Run Him Over
'Nights in Rodanthe': Contrived Hollywood Archetype Seeks Same
'Choke': Hard To Swallow
Movies in Brief: 'Wild Combination'
Movies in Brief: 'The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela'
'Alexander Nevsky': Chopping Down the Grand Teutons
MoMA Snatches Two From the Art House
 Heroism of a King Captured on Film in the Movie of George VI
A Brilliant Portrayal by Colin Firth
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the New York Sun
January 8, 2011
“The King’s Speech” is, as advertised, a riveting view, even for those who might have no special interest in the history so vividly described in this new film. King George VI always has been one of the 20th century’s most uplifting examples of rising…
Secretariat Thunders Onto the Screen In a Magnificent Movie
A Glimpse Is Gained of Perfection in Sport
By SETH LIPSKY, Special to the Sun
One of the memorable moments in my newspaper life — a span filled with wars, politics, and other dramas, high and low — is the one that flashed by in the spring of 1973, when I found myself jammed up directly against an infield fence at Churchill…
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