Top Ten Movies
These are the films which were artistically excellent, skillfully made, a long-lasting, positive contribution to the film canon, and stuck with me in some way.
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Moskow, Belgium
Moskow, Belgium is the kind of film that appeals to both the hopeless romantics and the sarcastic cynics.
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Dysfunctional Festivities
The holidays are happy because they force us to leave the warmth of the illusion of adulthood and watch our years of therapy slide down the sink with the scraps of Christmas dinner and our dignity, as our pretensions to maturity explode into the sibling rivalries we founded at the age of three. A Christmas [...]
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The Fight For Salmon in “Upstream Battle”
In a country overrun with Wal*Marts and convenience stores, the idea of living dependent only on the land seems abstract. But director Ben Kempas’s new documentary turns that distant truth into a concrete reality.
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Tags: dams, documentaries, energy, Klamath, Native Americans, Oregon, PacifiCorp, salmon, Upstream Battle Wax On, Wax Off: Reflections on The Karate Kid
When Christy is sick, she craves familiar movies she loved as a child. A recent chest infection kept her laid up for a few days, when she rediscovered one of her favorite movies of all time: The Karate Kid.
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Pre-School Mayhem in Nursery University
If you thought college applications were grueling, wait until you find out about Manhattan’s most competitive nursery schools.
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Thoughts On Watching “Man On Wire”
It is a fantastic mixture of confidence and humbleness that allows us to dream of the image of our own bodies suspended in air, confident that anything is possible, humble to the inspiration.
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"In the Parlance of Our Times":
An Insufficient Appreciation of the Coen Brothers
In order to fully appreciate Burn After Reading, and how it carries on this Coen tradition, let’s consider three of their previous works.
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Rethinking What It Means To Be “Made In America”
We’d prefer the challenging message masked in metaphor, symbolism, or fiction - but Stacy Peralta’s latest documentary demands that Americans face their own bigoted perspective head on.
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The Redemptive Power of Forgiveness
When a person, even a truly “good” person, is hurt, the innate human inclination toward revenge is ignited. The human condition is full of multitudes.
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