Saigon, Mon Amour–I don't think the new French movie, Indochine, deserves the Best Foreign Picture Award it received from the National Board of Review last month. Not in a year that has given us Toto Le Heros, Raise the Red Lantern, Delicatessen, and even Tous Les Matins Du Monde. A slick and sprawling tale, centering on a strong woman (Catherine Deneuve) who owns a rubber plantation in Saigon in the l930s, Indochine is at heart an old-fashioned, Hollywood-style soap opera.

In this unsuccessful collaboration between producer David O. Selznick and director Vittorio De Sica, Jennifer Jones (Selznick’s wife) plays an American woman who meets her Italian lover (miscast Monty Clift) for the final time in Rome’s famous train station. The original script by Cesare Zavattini and Mario Soldati was touched and retouched by various writers, […]

After “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” it took three years for the second chapter of Indiana Jones to be made. High expectations were largely met, though some critics were disappointed with the end result of the $25 million sequel. Most reviewers, though, singled out the fast, breakneck pacing of the action-adventure, which begins with a spectacular scene in a suave nightclub.

Produced by George Lucas and director Spielberg, the third chapter of the Indiana Jones series, which began with the 1981 smash hit, ?¢¬Ä¬úRaiders of the Lost Ark,?¢¬Ä and continued with the 1984 ?¢¬Ä¬úIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” is the weakest of the trilogy, which might explain why it became the last installment-?¢¬Ä¬îuntil the new episode, 19 years later.