Friday, January 26, 2007

Corner Curio Cabinets - Movie review: 'The Painted Veil'


Movie review: 'The Painted Veil'
Naomi Watts is hardly a glamor icon in the vein of Greta Garbo. But Garbo really had no business being in a film version of Somerset Maugham's "The Painted Veil." And Watts does.
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The Good German (R) Steven Soderberghs homage to 1940s Hollywood filmmaking shot in black and white on back lots and soundstages with equipment from the period is a thriller set in post-World War II Berlin. A journalist (George Clooney) returns to find ...