Yesterday, I was walking at an outdoor mall with my husband after attending a poetry reading, enjoying a gorgeous spring day, when two guys approached—one with a big fuzzy mike and the other hidden behind a video camera. An introvert’s greatest fear suddenly leap-frogged into my ordinary day. I frowned at them. But the camera [...]
I happened to catch part of Fresh Air in the car today, on my way to meet a friend for lunch. Terry Gross was interviewing Brett Morgen, director of the new documentary Chicago Ten. Now this sounds like an excellent movie. Listen to the interview, or read a little about it, here.
At the end of the interview Morgen says:
The film is [...]
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What are your three favorite Christmas songs and who sings them?
Of course, I have to start right out cheating. There are so many great Christmas songs that I decided instead to list favorite Christmas albums.
Christmas Portrait by the Carpenters (The Carpenters may have been 70s corny, but she had the most gorgeous voice and this [...]
In 1951, while the cold war raged and Joseph McCarthy ruthlessly hunted communists real and imagined, a few filmmakers decided to share the true story of a miners’ strike in New Mexico. There was a hitch, of course: These particular men had been blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Commission. Director Herbert J. [...]
I can’t explain this whopping oversight. Somehow, I managed to not see The Bicycle Thief until the other night (and no, I’m not five years old, and even took film classes in college). Incredible. Other than Salt of the Earth, it’s the best social commentary movie I can think of. It reminded me of Salt, with the realism, [...]
