Making the Crossing: Migrants in the Movies
Mediterranea at the Mill Valley Film Festival couldn’t come at a better time. Though several years in the making, and …
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Mainlining Movies
October brings the Mill Valley Film Festival to town. Several towns, in fact. And theaters enough to show 170 movies or …
Democracy and the Demagogue
Jason Stanley, author of the much praised How Propaganda Works, takes a look at the current political season and how …
Economics: Prizing Plain Talk on Inequality
Angus Deaton, variously described as a Scotsman, a Briton and a Princeton economist has just been awarded the The Sveriges Riksbank Prize …
Places Without Names — A Poem by Philip Booth
“Places Without Names” by Philip Booth in After the Storm: Poems on the Persian Gulf War editors Jay Meek and …
The Dawn of Humanity: Science at Work
The find of an extraordinary number of early hominid bones and subsequent naming of a new species — —homo naledi …
Massacre in Rome, Richard Burton as a Nazi
Surely one of the lesser known movies from the Italian film corpus on WW II is Massacre in Rome, (Rappresaglia) …
Adult Films from Germany
The recent appearance in local theaters of Christian Petzold‘s 2014 Phoenix is a timely reminder of a fine and under appreciated …
Refugees Today and Yesterday
This started out as a post about two movies — about refugees– but talking about movies before actualities seemed just …
Rome, Open City, 1945
The Nazi occupation of Rome ended on June 2, 1944, nine months after it had begun, four days before the …
No One Leaves Home, by Warsan Shire
Unbelievable poem by Warsan Shire. no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run …
General della Rovere – Roberto Rossellini Looks at Choices in War
Roberto Rossellini’s Generale della Rovere, 1959, while not properly part of his great WW II trilogy which defined the emerging Italian …