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 …
Category Archives: Movies
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 …
The Dawn of Humanity: Science at Work
The find of an extraordinary number of early hominid bones and subsequent naming of a new species — —homo naledi …
Massacre in Rome, Richard Burton as a Nazi
Surely one of the lesser known movies from the Italian film corpus on WW II is Massacre in Rome, (Rappresaglia) …
Adult Films from Germany
The recent appearance in local theaters of Christian Petzold‘s 2014 Phoenix is a timely reminder of a fine and under appreciated …
Refugees Today and Yesterday
This started out as a post about two movies — about refugees– but talking about movies before actualities seemed just …
Rome, Open City, 1945
The Nazi occupation of Rome ended on June 2, 1944, nine months after it had begun, four days before the …
General della Rovere – Roberto Rossellini Looks at Choices in War
Roberto Rossellini’s Generale della Rovere, 1959, while not properly part of his great WW II trilogy which defined the emerging Italian …
Resisting Tyranny – Led by the Young
1972 in Czechoslovakia was 4 years after the 1968 Prague Spring, seven months of relative freedom which ended abruptly with …
1913: Seeds of Conflict in Palestine
1913: Seeds of Conflict, a 2014 PBS distributed documentary by Ben Loeterman, is a fine, short introduction to the little …