Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts (86th Academy Awards) review
There is a single thread running through these shorts, and it is deeply existential and irreducibly personal: How do we save ourselves?
Nazis
“scholar asserts that Hollywood avidly aided Nazis”
I’m not sure why this is coming as any surprise to anybody. Hollywood is big business. Big business had no problem doing big business with the Nazis. It was just, you know, good business.
Lore (review)
Hints at a new mythology of darkness and light, of scary childhood and even scarier adolescence…
Free Men (Les hommes libres) (review)
I kept hoping to get caught up in this untold story of the French Resistance in more than a coolly intellectual way, but that never happened.
Huffington Post won a Pulitzer? crap (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Headhunters (Hodejegerne) (review)
Crazy-funny, a hilarious satire on male inadequacy disguised as an outrageously violent crime thriller. Not at all for the squeamish, and just so wrong that it ends up just so right.
In Darkness (review)
It’s The Diary of Anne Frank, only with sewers. Elegantly presented, chock full of moments of dreadful suspense in a horrible milieu, and buoyed by strikingly naturalistic performances…
In the Land of Blood and Honey (review)
Written and directed by actress Angelina Jolie, there is nevertheless nothing “Hollywood” about this film: it stars local actors and is in the local languages, and it shies not one whit from the horrors of the Bosnian civil war.
adventures in Lille (part 2)
The Christmas market at Lille was a disappointment…
adventures in Lille (part 1)
Yesterday I spent what wasn’t Thanksgiving Day in London in France, in the industrial city of Lille…
