The Snow Walker – Survival in the Northwest Territories, a Movie
It was Friday night and we were looking for some escape, a movie not too burdened with “meaning” or exotic …
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Let There Be Light: John Huston’s 1946 Documentary on PTSD
John Huston is one of the great directors of American movies. Who hasn’t seen “The Maltese Falcon” (1941), “The African …
Turkey to Switzerland: Hope Drives Despair
As one interpretation of Pandora’s Box goes, what remains inside after all the evils are set free — hope– is …
The Wedding Song — In Tunis As the Nazis Come
The Wedding Song [2008] is a deeply felt film of young women’s friendship under the extreme stress of wartime as …
Footnote — a Footnote in Contemporary Movies
Footnote, (2011) by Israeli director Joseph Cedar promises an interesting story of father-son tension in the hermetic world of Talmudic scholarship …
Deep Blue Sea: Dark and Cold
Sometimes stage plays make it to the movies very well, other times not. Terrence Rattigan’s 1952 play, of love and …
The Official Story: Loss and Love in Argentina
The self declared “dirty war” of the Argentine junta that governed the country after Isabel Martinez de Perón, successor to …
The Deer Hunter — Re-Seeing in 2012
Seeing Michael Cimino‘s The Deer Hunter 30 plus years after it made such an impression in 1978 as one of the …
The Train — A Movie Worth Getting Aboard
My grandfather was a railroad man on the Southern Pacific; my father a model railroader with a setup that filled …
The Red and The Black: Love and Ambition in a time of Revolution
If it has been years since you attended to Stendhal’s great novel, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of …
Talking Turkey: Two Films
I admit it. I’ve been on a bender lately reading about Turkey and watching movies made there, or by Turks …
A Separation: A Film From Iran
A Separation, from Iran, is the most intense, informative, though claustrophobic, domestic drama you are likely to see in years. …