“Its the missing piece of the puzzle that I didn’t know I was looking for.” Well I’m finally getting back into the swing of things. This whole sleeping, eating, sleeping, and eating a little bit more has really taken a toll on me the past month or so. So over a month ago I went [...]
Food and film have long been allies in the quest to appease the insatiable human appetite for sensory gratification. That conspiratorial bond has contributed much to America’s culture of euthanasia by pleasure. Your local multiplex makes more money on soda and popcorn than it does on ticket sales. Candy companies boost quarterly earnings by stocking [...]
“In 200,000 years on earth humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly 4 billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high, but it’s too late to be a pessimist: Humanity has barely 10 years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of its spoilation of the [...]
Two-time heavyweight boxing champion of the world, Mike Tyson, is one of the most controversial, ferocious, reprehensible, strangely compelling, unknowable, simultaneously brilliant and laughably incoherent international pop-culture icons of the 20th century. To borrow the words of Sir Winston Churchill, he is a “riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” An emphatically raw and [...]
Has it really come to this? Are we so out of touch with our home that the only way we can interact with nature anymore is to cram into a darkened room and stare at a glowing screen for two hours? Movies serve as a portal into the fantastic; an escape into the wondrous, strange, [...]
Jazz. This uniquely American music, conceived in the travails of West African immigrants living in a world completely at odds with their roots, and evolved gradually through the influences of ragtime, folk, dixieland, and big-band has left no facet of modern, western culture untouched. Jazz is a study in fluidity, change, expression, spontaneity, and unabashed [...]
DIFF 2012 Reviews: ‘Cinema Six,’ ‘Compliance,’ ‘Faith, Love and Whiskey’
Things I Don’t Understand (2011)
Jiří Trnka: Animation Retrospective
Lowlights of Cinélatino
Brevity Pays Off
‘A Secret World’ at Cinélatino
‘Future Lasts Forever’ at Sofia
Two Treatments of Italy’s Fascist Past
‘The Leopard’: novel, opera, but above all, film
We’ll always have ‘Casablanca’
