Avatar: The Movie
Avatar, the technically amazing, richly conceived and executed movie, will not be to everyone’s taste. It is tasty enough, however, …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
The Secret Life of Words: A Film
In The Secret Life of Words, one of the best films you’ve never heard of, Spanish director Isabel Coixet, guides …
Gardens of Stone: A Film
For some, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) is the best film made about the Vietnam War: for some it …
Salgado: Misery and Art
The demons of confusion are always with me at large-scale photo exhibitions of Sebastiao Salgado. They didn’t fail to come …
Ai Yi Yi Yiiii!
Great music, new to my ears, brought by a nice opinion article in the NY times. Los Cenzontles — the …
The Way
Lao Tzu’s (Old Master) Tao Te Ching [Way and Virtue The Ancient Text] is one of the oldest meditations we …
The Road — Taken
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, translated into film, opened in scattered theaters this week. In the Bay Area only two houses …
Darwin’s Influence on Western Thought
In honor of the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, last Tuesday, November 24, Scientific American …
The Burmese Harp: Fires on the Plain: Two Films
When Kon Ichikawa‘s name is mentioned, ears don’t perk up in recognition. Even if “film maker” is added as …
Big Sur in the Autumn on a Birthday
The cliffs of the Santa Lucia Range in years, a mere 5 million old, made up of parts 100 million …
Rumi: A Poet Like No Other
What a fortune it is to have friends to send you arrows that lodge in your heart! I got a …
Muddy River: A Town in China
The greater the flood of news the faster we are carried along. We have time to see only the surfaces …