• On Film, Movies, Cinema

Denis Villeneuve’s “Incendies” (2010): Seeking Expiation

4 years ago

In Denis Villeneuve's 2010 film "Incendies" siblings seek a brother and father never known to deliver letters from their recently…

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Read, Viewed: September 2021

4 years ago

During September I finished reading "Shadow of the Torturer" a short story by Adalbert Stifter, luminary of 19th century German…

  • On Film, Movies, Cinema

René Clément’s “Forbidden Games” (1952): Mourning as Indifference

4 years ago

"Forbidden Games" (1952) tells a story of how children, uninitiated in the rituals of mourning, recognize the loss of those…

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Read, Viewed: August 2021

4 years ago

Moments of grace: finishing Lois Lowry's "Number the Stars," Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome", and viewing again the 2000 film "Sexy…

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Read & Viewed: July 2021

4 years ago

What I read—James. M Cain, Galileo—was more memorable than what I viewed—"The Glory Stompers," "Marnie"—during the month of July. The…

  • On Film, Movies, Cinema

Ain’t it cool?!: “John Wick” (2014)

4 years ago

The culture of the exotic, fascinating underworld thrills us in "John Wick," not merely the well-choreographed gun-fu.

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Read, Viewed: June 2021

4 years ago

In June, read Cain's "Serenade," watched Bogart's "Sahara" (1943), carefully perused Red Sonja, and erred into surprising reflections on time…

  • On Film, Movies, Cinema

“Collateral” (2004): Notes on Michael Mann and Modern Urban Space

4 years ago

Notes on the debt to "Miami Vice," the treatment of urban space, and stylistic gunplay in Michael Mann's 2004 film…

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May 2021 Reading and Viewing: Glorious Consumption, Indeed

4 years ago

Any month (like May) that includes a viewing of "Miller's Crossing" and a reading of Schiller's "Don Carlos" is a…

  • On Ideas, Concepts, Intuitions

Fred Hyatt: Not Enough Technology Pessimism!

4 years ago

A spirited response enjoining MORE pessimism to Fred Hyatt's Washington Post editorial on technology and democracy