Archive for the ‘Women’ Category
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The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
15 Nov 2018The Return of the Soldier was Rebecca West‘s (later, Dame Rebecca West) first novel. Though considered slight against her later…
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Wonder Woman – More of the Same Manly Stuff
19 Jun 2017Let me introduce myself as one of the only moviegoers in the western world to see Wonder Woman— on the…
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Two Cultures, Two Loves and the Anvil of Tradition
01 Mar 2017Two compelling films from remote corners of the earth, one of them nominated for an Oscar, are recently available to…
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The Face of War– Martha Gellhorn, Seven Wars
08 Jul 2016Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998,) wrote much and lived more. As Bill Buford, the fiction editor at “The New Yorker”…
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The Face of War –Martha Gellhorn, her life
14 Jun 2016Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998,) referred to by some as one of the world’s great war correspondents did not write…
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Women say: Hands Off! — Three Films of the Changing Conversation in Islam
26 Jan 2016The long fight for autonomy, independence and freedom against enemies canny and brutal, is one of the most popular subjects…
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War in Movies: Small, Tense, and In Your Face
14 Oct 2015The 38th Mill Valley Film Festival has made a special effort to find and present Spanish language films this year,…
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Resisting Tyranny – Led by the Young
31 Aug 20151972 in Czechoslovakia was 4 years after the 1968 Prague Spring, seven months of relative freedom which ended abruptly with…
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Testament of Youth — WW I Pacifist Comes to Film
02 Jul 2015Vera Brittain, one of the least lost of the Lost Generation of WW I, is on her third revival…
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Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence
17 Jan 2014If there were an “X” Prize for solving the problem of human violence, Russell Jacoby‘s Bloodlust: On the Roots of…
