Europe, Travel

Germany

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In July I had a chance to visit Germany. I wanted to see not the big cities but smaller places. Weimar, a small city in which Goethe spent most of his life and later became synonymous with German high culture and the failure of the short-lived German Republic, 1918-1933, proved to be a feast for image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Cold Mountain

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This Civil War movie works because it is has historical depth and employs a love story very effectively.  Instead of going overboard with passion, the lovers take cautious steps toward each other and just as they allow themselves a kiss and the dream of a life together, Inman (Jude Law) is forced to join the image [Read More]
Humor, The Best

A Few Questions

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How can you make holy water at home? You boil the hell out of it. How do crazy people go through the forest? They take the psycho path. What do fish say when they hit a concrete wall? Damn! What do eskimos get from sitting on the ice too long? Polaroids What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t [Read More]
Diary

Ali

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An interview with Will Smith, in which he described all the preparations that he went through to play “The Champ,” intrigued me enough to rent the video despite the fact that the film was a failure at the box office. I did not get beyond minute 15. This film bombed not because it was too image [Read More]
Diary

Mystic River

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After launching a frontal assault on intelligent film making with “The Bridges of Madison County”,  Clint Eastwood redeems himself with this beautifully directed psychodrama. Mystic River explores the complexities of human relations, following three kids from the playground to the difficultities of living an adult life in the very same neighborhood in which their experience image [Read More]
Comedy, Movies

High Fidelity

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The movie is billed as a comedy. It is not much of one. It is a diary of a man whose girlfriend just walked out and who starts callling old girl friends to find out why they all rejected him. The situation is ripe with comic potential but the narrative lacks power and leaves one image [Read More]