The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
The Return of the Soldier was Rebecca West‘s (later, Dame Rebecca West) first novel. Though considered slight against her later …
Category Archives: Women
Wonder Woman – More of the Same Manly Stuff
Let me introduce myself as one of the only moviegoers in the western world to see Wonder Woman— on the …
Two Cultures, Two Loves and the Anvil of Tradition
Two compelling films from remote corners of the earth, one of them nominated for an Oscar, are recently available to …
The Face of War– Martha Gellhorn, Seven Wars
Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998,) wrote much and lived more. As Bill Buford, the fiction editor at “The New Yorker” …
The Face of War –Martha Gellhorn, her life
Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998,) referred to by some as one of the world’s great war correspondents did not write …
Women say: Hands Off! — Three Films of the Changing Conversation in Islam
The long fight for autonomy, independence and freedom against enemies canny and brutal, is one of the most popular subjects …
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, …
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 …
Testament of Youth — WW I Pacifist Comes to Film
Vera Brittain, one of the least lost of the Lost Generation of WW I, is on her third revival …
Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence
If there were an “X” Prize for solving the problem of human violence, Russell Jacoby‘s Bloodlust: On the Roots of …