The Mirror – a Poem, Jose Angel Valente
The Mirror Jose Angel Valente Today I saw my face, so unfamiliar, so strange and fallen in this mirror. It …
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Cities Of Salt: Wadi No More
Cities of Salt, a sweeping trilogy* of novels, and particularly the first, with the same name, by Abdelrahman Munif does …
WW I in Paris: Murder in Aurora
The Past Recaptured (1932), the US title and Frederick Blossom translation of Le Temps retrouvé, is the seventh volume of Marcel Proust’s immortal Remembrance …
Natural Mechanical — a small volume of large poems
I’ve been reading the poems of J.O. Morgan, Scot, lately. And slowly. A page a morning, as is taught by …
Silvio Soldini on That Greener Grass
Silvio Soldini won’t be an Italian film maker who immediately springs to mind though thought be applied. With a thirty …
The Silence of the Sea — A Film of Noncooperation with Evil
The Silence of the Sea, a 1949 film by Jean Pierre Melville, may be one of the strangest war movies …
A Touch of Spice – Istanbul Greeks, a Film
Food and the lessons it holds for us, quite apart from sheer survival, are a minor genre in modern movies. …
My Bewilderment — Omar Khayyam
I was disturbed that he brought me into being, and nothing has grown through my life like my bewilderment at …
Egg-Milk-Honey — A Turkish Film Trilogy
Trilogies are rare birds in the species we call movies. When they exist at all they seem to come from …
Waiting
I am standing, waiting for a bird to breathe. The loudest noise is of shadows leaping leaves. The colors are …
Burma –Resistance In Raw Footage
Making a movie, anywhere, anytime, is a tough enterprise. Doing it the middle of a civil insurrection, in which the …
Downfall: The Last 10 Days of Hitler’s Reich
I remember being interested in seeing Downfall, the 2004 movie by Oliver Hirschbiegel when it came to theaters, and somehow getting the idea …