Tuesday, July 28, 2015

The Dead by James Joyce and John Huston

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Timing may not be everything, but it can change how we see the world. In my second year of college I read The Dead by James Joyce, besi...
Monday, July 13, 2015

A Conversation Imagined While Watching Walker/The Journey To the West

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A girl wanders by the red-robed Asian man, staring.  She comes closer, and then draws away, unable to make out any purpose.  A woman als...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

The Isolation of Safe (1995)

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Juliane Moore is a soft-spoken, passive hous-- homemaker who develops multiple chemical sensitivity, which doctors cannot diagnose, and t...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

The Spirit of the Beehive

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I freely admit that Spirit of the Beehive is a top-shelf film, where the pleasures aren't easy to grasp. I was made that way on purp...

The Apostle: A Question Without an Answer

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Sonny is a preacher somewhere in the South.  He finds that his wife is having an affair with a young man, and then she works to steal his...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Breaking the Waves and Patriarchy in Von Trier Films

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Bess is a simple woman.  She loves her family, cares for her church, listens to her God and deeply, desperately, obsessively loves her ne...
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Thursday, June 25, 2015

Top Five Characteristics of Great Movies

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Art means different things to different people.  Great art can be interpreted variously.  As a medium, films are significant to people fo...
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