Of Love and Other Demons: A Film
Contemplating the marriage of movies to the imagery of Gabriel Garcia Marquez occurs to every reader of any one of …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
Baran: A Movie of Afghan Immigrants to Iran
Baran, another very fine movie from Iranian master Majid Majidi [see reviews of his Color of Paradise and The Song …
Fair Game: The White House Power to Ruin Lives. Here, There, Everywhere
Fair Game, the new movie about the right wing outing of Valerie Plame as a covert CIA agent, based on …
Weekend Movie Recommendation
Only Human is a hilarious, touching and politically aware movie from Spain. Not in the theaters but at Netflix, so …
The Armies — A Novel from Colombia
One of the great pleasures of going to the annual meeting of the American Literary Translators Association [ALTA] is the …
The Maid — A Film from Chile
The Maid, a 2009 film from Chile, directed by Sebastian Silva, offers itself with a poster of a slightly maniacal …
The Color of Paradise — A Film from Iran
It’s hard to convey the feeling of seeing Majid Majidi‘s wondrous 1999 The Color of Paradise from Iran. We watched it on …
Social Network — Network Sucia
[Updated Below] Another title for Social Network, the new [2010] movie about the founding of Facebook, might as well have …
Global Warming: Reeeelax! Says Movie
Bjorn Lomberg has long been on the edges of the climate change debate telling all who need an “authoritative” source …
Hiroshima Joe – A Novel
Seeing the smoking wasteland of Hiroshima, particularly the blasted home and shredded family of a friend immediately after the Bomb …
Breathing
Breathing out ourselves breathing in so many others slowly, as we age, we change the pure light of her laughter …
The Devil’s Miner: A Bolivian Documentary
Working in a mine work may not be the most dangerous job in the world (believe it or not, …