The Silence of the Sea — A Film of Noncooperation with Evil
The Silence of the Sea, a 1949 film by Jean Pierre Melville, may be one of the strangest war movies …
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A Touch of Spice – Istanbul Greeks, a Film
Food and the lessons it holds for us, quite apart from sheer survival, are a minor genre in modern movies. …
Egg-Milk-Honey — A Turkish Film Trilogy
Trilogies are rare birds in the species we call movies. When they exist at all they seem to come from …
Sunflower: Italians on the Russian Front — a Movie
Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, in their prime would be enough to attract any warm-blooded movie goer, much less an Italo-cinephile. …
The Snow Walker – Survival in the Northwest Territories, a Movie
It was Friday night and we were looking for some escape, a movie not too burdened with “meaning” or exotic …
Turkey to Switzerland: Hope Drives Despair
As one interpretation of Pandora’s Box goes, what remains inside after all the evils are set free — hope– is …
The Wedding Song — In Tunis As the Nazis Come
The Wedding Song [2008] is a deeply felt film of young women’s friendship under the extreme stress of wartime as …
Footnote — a Footnote in Contemporary Movies
Footnote, (2011) by Israeli director Joseph Cedar promises an interesting story of father-son tension in the hermetic world of Talmudic scholarship …
Deep Blue Sea: Dark and Cold
Sometimes stage plays make it to the movies very well, other times not. Terrence Rattigan’s 1952 play, of love and …
The Official Story: Loss and Love in Argentina
The self declared “dirty war” of the Argentine junta that governed the country after Isabel Martinez de Perón, successor to …
The Deer Hunter — Re-Seeing in 2012
Seeing Michael Cimino‘s The Deer Hunter 30 plus years after it made such an impression in 1978 as one of the …
The Train — A Movie Worth Getting Aboard
My grandfather was a railroad man on the Southern Pacific; my father a model railroader with a setup that filled …