Jane Eyre: Now and Then
Went to see the new production of Jane Eyre last night, in good part because Cary Fukunaga‘s earlier “Sin Nombre“ …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
Buffalo Boy — A Film of Vietnamese Herders
The incredible, beautiful green of trees, grasses and rice against the blue rivers, blue skies and white clouds at the …
Every Man Dies Alone — Hans Fallada, Germany 1947
No less than Primo Levi, Herman Hesse and Thomas Mann have sung the praises of Hans Fallada, the novelist who …
The Kite — Over the Lebanese-Israeli Border — a Film
Many years ago I translated The Manuscript of a Crow, a short story by Spanish author Max Aub, the protagonist …
Potiche – Trophy Wife, a frothy French Labor Film
We took a flyer last night on Potiche – Trophy Wife, based on Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu being the leads. …
The Last of the Angels by Fadhil al-Azzawi, Iraq
Fadhil al-Azzawi’s 1992 The Last of the Angels while not a particularly long book (275 pages in the Free Press …
Army of Crime — Immigrants Who Fought for France, A Film
My dear Melinée, my beloved little orphan, In a few hours I will no longer be of this world. We …
Season of Migration to the North — Tayeb Salih, Sudan
I’ve been trying to keep my focus on fiction and film from the North African/Middle Eastern countries where the 2011 …
The Mother of the Bride – Screwball Comedy from Egypt, 1967
Comedies of family life have been a regular feature of movies and television in the US from the 1950s right …
Garbo: The Spy — A Documentary, WW II
Sort of by accident, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, we went to see Garbo: The Spy, a 2009 documentary and …
Wives Killing Husbands, Sons Killing Mothers
For some reason that escapes me at the moment I picked up my worn old copy of Paul Roche’s translation …
Afrita Hanem: The Genie Lady — Egypt, 1951
Egypt as Egyptian movie goers saw it in 1951 (1949?) in Afrita Hanem: The Genie Lady [also known as Little …