Earth: The Tectonics of Violence
Deepa Mehta’s Earth is the second in her film trilogy of women’s lives in India as the country exited from …
Category Archives: Movies
The Butler: 34 Years in the White House
We joined with many last night who have appreciated Lee Daniel’s production of The Butler, a fictionalized take on the …
Elmore Leonard is El Hombre
Elmore Leonard has gone, leaving the finest, gun-tottinist gallery of characters on the range and in the hood this side …
Blue Jasmine — Woody’s Latest
There is something about watching a Woody Allen movie that always starts me squirming in my seat. Blue Jasmine, his …
Enemies of the People: A Cambodian Recollection
The Cambodian documentary, Enemies of the People is a one man labor of collection and recollection 30 years after the …
Hannah Arendt: A Movie, A Book
In this 50th year following the publication of Hannah Arendt’s troubled and troubling book, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the …
Perla — A Novel of the Disappeared and Found
Perla Carolina De Robertis 2012, Random House What a brave book! Carolina De Robertis, widely celebrated for her first novel, The …
Why We Fight: Unmaking the Myth
Eugene Jareck’s 2005 documentary, Why We Fight, available at Netflix, is still a relevant film to watch, even though the motivating …
The Company You Keep — An Old Liberal Looks at Old Radicals
It’s long been a puzzle to me why the sizzling years in the United States from say, 1963 to 1975, …
The Gatekeepers: An Israeli Documentary
The Gatekeepers, an Israeli documentary by Dror Moreh is a coup most film makers could only dream of: not only …
The Human Condition: What Is A Man to Do? Japan in Defeat
Masaki Kobayashi’s war time epic, The Human Condition, at 9 hours and 45 minutes, in black and white, with subtitles …
Zero Dark Thirty: Normalizing Torture
I have posted previously that after a thorough examination of reviews and opinions about Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, I …