Zinky Boys: Russian Dead in Foreign Lands
Zinky Boys, Svetlana Alexievich‘s third book, and the third about war, reveals in it’s flip, bitter title, the pervading feeling …
Monthly Archives: October 2015
WW I In The Italian Alps: Torneranno i Prati by Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi is best known in the United States for his 1978 movie, The Tree of Wooden Clogs, even though …
A Poet and His Work, In Film
Poetry in film, now there’s a small sub-genre of the movie world. Hayden Reiss‘s long labor of love, Robert Bly: …
Old School, New School — Detectives in Post-Franco Spain
Marshland (La Isla Minima) by Spanish director Alberto Rodriguez laces a sharply honed policía procesal (sadistic serial killer included) with traces from Spain’s recent fascist …
Robert Bly, Poet, Crying Out….
I saw a wonderful documentary film the other day, titled Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy, about which more …
War in Movies: Small, Tense, and In Your Face
The 38th Mill Valley Film Festival has made a special effort to find and present Spanish language films this year, …
Making the Crossing: Migrants in the Movies
Mediterranea at the Mill Valley Film Festival couldn’t come at a better time. Though several years in the making, and …
Mainlining Movies
October brings the Mill Valley Film Festival to town. Several towns, in fact. And theaters enough to show 170 movies or …
Democracy and the Demagogue
Jason Stanley, author of the much praised How Propaganda Works, takes a look at the current political season and how …
Economics: Prizing Plain Talk on Inequality
Angus Deaton, variously described as a Scotsman, a Briton and a Princeton economist has just been awarded the The Sveriges Riksbank Prize …
Places Without Names — A Poem by Philip Booth
“Places Without Names” by Philip Booth in After the Storm: Poems on the Persian Gulf War editors Jay Meek and …