Elmore Leonard is El Hombre
Elmore Leonard has gone, leaving the finest, gun-tottinist gallery of characters on the range and in the hood this side …
Tag Archives: Movies
Blue Jasmine — Woody’s Latest
There is something about watching a Woody Allen movie that always starts me squirming in my seat. Blue Jasmine, his …
Hannah Arendt: A Movie, A Book
In this 50th year following the publication of Hannah Arendt’s troubled and troubling book, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the …
Perla — A Novel of the Disappeared and Found
Perla Carolina De Robertis 2012, Random House What a brave book! Carolina De Robertis, widely celebrated for her first novel, The …
Why We Fight: Unmaking the Myth
Eugene Jareck’s 2005 documentary, Why We Fight, available at Netflix, is still a relevant film to watch, even though the motivating …
The Sheltering Sky — in Morocco
Since my wife returned from a two week visit to Morocco we’ve been combing old movies for scenes shot in …
The Company You Keep — An Old Liberal Looks at Old Radicals
It’s long been a puzzle to me why the sizzling years in the United States from say, 1963 to 1975, …
The Gatekeepers: An Israeli Documentary
The Gatekeepers, an Israeli documentary by Dror Moreh is a coup most film makers could only dream of: not only …
The Human Condition: What Is A Man to Do? Japan in Defeat
Masaki Kobayashi’s war time epic, The Human Condition, at 9 hours and 45 minutes, in black and white, with subtitles …
Zero Dark Thirty: Normalizing Torture
I have posted previously that after a thorough examination of reviews and opinions about Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, I …
More Movie Violence: Staying On the Wagon
After holding myself into my seat to get to the end of Quentin Tanrantino’s Inglorious Basterds several years ago I …
Zero Dark Thirty: Is It Pornography?
I’ve been wrestling with myself about whether or not to see Zero Dark Thirty, not only because the violence is …