A Most Violent Year: A Man Without Guns Prevails
One of the season’s offerings tries a point of view not often found in American movies — a guy who …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
American Sniper: A Veteran Has His Say
From Waging Nonviolence via Salon,an excellent look at American Sniper, its protagonist and the culture that creates him. Chris Kyle …
Parade’s End — Benedict Cumberbatch as England’s Last Tory
The 5 hour HBO/BBC mini-series, Parade’s End, (2012) with Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher Tietjens, is a miracle of lossless compression, …
The Comedy of Charleroi – Courage and Cowardice in WW I
“The captain … was due to retire in October. In the very first burst of fire he was swept out …
American Sniper
The deep belief in a lone war-time hero, acting beyond normal skills and courage, to save dozens if not hundreds …
Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed
Just saw this a second time. Nothing changes in the review! It’s out now on the regular circuit… Stop the …
The Golden Era — A Writing Woman in Occupied China
Ann Hui, the prolific Hong Kong director, not well known in the United States, adds a serious biopic of Chinese …
The Monstrous Enterprise — Céline on the War
The first one-fifth of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night, [1934, Ralph Manheim translation, 1983] is from …
A Classic from Poland – “The Doll” by Boleslaw Prus
The most unusual book in my reading universe this year has to be the 1890 Polish classic, The Doll (“Lalka”) …
Looking for the Dead: Bertrand Tavernier Takes a Look at WW I
Some 350,ooo French soldiers in WW I have never been found. Is that possible? With almost one million five hundred …
“The Imitation Game” Could Be A Better Imitation
There’s an interesting irony to the title of the new movie about Alan Turing and the breaking of the German …
It All Matters
We got one of the best seasonal cards, ever, this week. Simple black text on a fir-green card. It all …