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"A movie review is a reflection of your life." -Michael Phillips What's my spin? I'm often looking at film from an ethical (not moralistic) stance. What does a film communicate about right and wrong especially in relationships?

Friday, September 25, 2015

Dekalog 2: "Do not Take the Name of the Lord in Vain"

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A woman whose husband is dying in a hospital and a doctor debate about the future. She wants to know what will happen so she can make a...

Dekalog 1: "You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me"

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The Dekalog, a Polish TV series by famous film director Krzysztof Kieslowski, is an odd duck. It is ten hours with ten stories, focused...

Friday, August 14, 2015

Familar, but with Depth: Brief Encounter

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I do not understand how a single director knows the human emotional state to such a degree that he can make two such perfect films as La...

Resplendent Isolation: An Angel At My Table

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Janet Frame, poet and novelist, was born in New Zealand in 1924 and died in the year 2000. Her life is somewhat unremarkable, apart from...

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...

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