Mothers and daughters in motion pictures
The Brilliance of the "Joy Luck Club" is Lost in Translation.
Film Critic Stephen Schiff reviews "The Joy Luck Club," the movie adaptation of the Amy Tan novel.
Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar.
Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar. He made the campy comedies "Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" and "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down." His new movie, "High Heels" is a more sober story, the tale of a romantic triangle involving a mother, her daughter, and a murder.
"Stella" is "Eye-Poppingly" Bad.
Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the movie, "Stella," starring Bette Midler.
Mother and Daughter Relationships Are Explored in New Australian Film.
Guest film critic Michael Sragow, film critic for The San Francisco Examiner. Sragow will review the Australian film "High Tide" about the reunion of an estranged mother and daughter.