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. …
Monthly Archives: June 2012
My Bewilderment — Omar Khayyam
I was disturbed that he brought me into being, and nothing has grown through my life like my bewilderment at …
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 …
Waiting
I am standing, waiting for a bird to breathe. The loudest noise is of shadows leaping leaves. The colors are …
Burma –Resistance In Raw Footage
Making a movie, anywhere, anytime, is a tough enterprise. Doing it the middle of a civil insurrection, in which the …
Downfall: The Last 10 Days of Hitler’s Reich
I remember being interested in seeing Downfall, the 2004 movie by Oliver Hirschbiegel when it came to theaters, and somehow getting the idea …
A Mind at Peace — But Not So We’d Know it; A Novel from Turkey
There is the old adage ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say it at all’ which is at least …
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 …