Japan’s WW II Cinema: Bucking Up the Home Front
Watching Japanese films from the 1940s and 50s is difficult for many. No big sword fights,no clothing shed in intimate love affairs. …
Monthly Archives: April 2017
“Border Incident,” 1949 and Desperate Men At the Border
Anthony Mann was a prolific director (42 credits) of Hollywood movies from the early ’40s to the late ’60s. Many …
(Many ) A Day in Dublin with James Joyce
Ulysses is, well, only a Dublin day, yes, but seven years in the writing and possibly as long to appreciatively read it. …
Goya: “More of the Same” 1808, and Still the same, 2017
My abiding interest, since I left the US Navy after too many images of mayhem and suffering during the Vietnam …
A Very Short Introduction to Fascism
The word fascist lost its adhesion to two particular strains of political movements decades ago and became a general term …
Goya’s Ghosts
Having carried some of the images of Francisco Goya’s Disasters of War in my mind from an early age, it …