Adult Films from Germany
The recent appearance in local theaters of Christian Petzold‘s 2014 Phoenix is a timely reminder of a fine and under appreciated …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
Refugees Today and Yesterday
This started out as a post about two movies — about refugees– but talking about movies before actualities seemed just …
Rome, Open City, 1945
The Nazi occupation of Rome ended on June 2, 1944, nine months after it had begun, four days before the …
No One Leaves Home, by Warsan Shire
Unbelievable poem by Warsan Shire. no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run …
General della Rovere – Roberto Rossellini Looks at Choices in War
Roberto Rossellini’s Generale della Rovere, 1959, while not properly part of his great WW II trilogy which defined the emerging Italian …
Resisting Tyranny – Led by the Young
1972 in Czechoslovakia was 4 years after the 1968 Prague Spring, seven months of relative freedom which ended abruptly with …
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
Nothing like good history, thoroughly researched and well written, helps better to put in place pieces of the immense human puzzle …
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
A recent article in the NY Times Tuesday Science section caught my attention and brought to mind one of the …
Resisted War, Resisted Racism, Resisted Silence: George Houser
Ninety Nine years is only the last accomplishment of George Houser’s amazing life: WW II conscientious objector, 1940 Co-founder of the …
Walking the Sierras, One Millennium at a Time
As a kid, like many other kids, I was fascinated by time travel. And perplexed. If I could go back …
1913: Seeds of Conflict in Palestine
1913: Seeds of Conflict, a 2014 PBS distributed documentary by Ben Loeterman, is a fine, short introduction to the little …
The African Queen: WW I Adventureland
Needing a break from my sometimes distressing immersion in WWI memoirs and history [here, here and here] I thought I’d …