Every jungle has its justice. Even if you’re a detective trying to find a missing child in your own neighborhood, even if you work with your lover and she’s a good business partner and equally great at what she does, even if you find the child and everyone says you’re a hero, you still are […]
This movie has performed a miracle. We are watching a small slice and rare retelling of the history of American involvement in Cambodia. We witness US abandonment of the country, the rise of the Khmer Rouge and its revolution which resulted in, the murder and enslavement of the Cambodian people by a political cult. What […]
I’ve decided to watch all of OZU’s films. So started with his masterpiece “The end of summer”. Three generations of a family and their friends, go about their ordinary lives in the most simple unassuming way, and yet there is major drama. The patriarch of the family worries everyone. He’s not paying attention to a once […]
I’ve worked with refugees. Nothing in your life prepares you for the experience. Einstein helped to set up the original Refugee organization, the IRC, to help people fleeing the Nazis, in Wor… Source: UNFINISHED SKY
The only thing more fun than watching this deadpan British comedy, is imagining being at the meeting where they pitched the idea. “Yes, we want to make a six part comedy, about two hapless suburban blokes walking about with metal detectors and the women who love them, use them, or want to walk around with […]
“Is Steve Jobs an Artist?” asks a recent New Yorker article following the movie. It’s not the right question. What kind of art form is a computer? Now that would have been a better question. The closest art form we all recognize is architecture. What is code? A language which creates the bricks of machine […]
This film has magnificent acting by Juliette Binoche and not quite so magnificent by Clive Owen. I kept asking myself, why is this so? She portrays a great painter twisted by physical pain, he a great writer savaged by alcohol. Mr. Owen does some wonderful bits of acting too. The beauty of his physical gestures when […]
The world class bicyclist Bartali, races to a convent in Assisi Italy, and then without speaking returns home to his wife and children. Is this one of the great ethical acts on planet earth, and if so, why? Those of us concerned with ethical dilemmas are always hounded by beginners, which is fine, and pretenders, […]
A very interesting film from 2929 Productions, distributed by Magnolia Pictures, which follows a certain line of endeavor by this group of artists and business people: unmitigated commitment to the deep. This is a difficult story, of plainer less glamorous Americans, facing hard times and the psychological hardships of inner turmoil, not bandaged by easy […]
I’ve worked with refugees. Nothing in your life prepares you for the experience. Einstein helped to set up the original Refugee organization, the IRC, to help people fleeing the Nazis, in World War II. To help them escape, whatever it takes, that is what the United States did, and still does, by giving refugees shelter. […]
Second Sight: C A Hall in the Blogosphere 