Blue Is The Warmest Color
The coming-of-age narrative tends to come alive for audiences in its reflection and recollection for us of situations and memories …
Category Archives: Briefs
Kill Your Darlings
As literary advice, the notion that beleaguered writers must be willing to “kill your darlings” in order to find the …
About Time
Love is in the air again in the latest film from writer-director Richard Curtis (Love Actually), but this time he’s …
All Is Lost
The Cornel West Reader, as regular readers know, serves as a touchstone for me. The good professor acknowledges being driven, …
Inequality For All
As Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton, Robert Reich was the lone voice raging against the madness of the economic …
Metallica: Through the Never
Metallica, as a band, has no fear of the close-up moment. They bared their souls in the 2004 documentary Metallica: …
Enough Said
Nicole Holofcener’s latest film, Enough Said, arrives burdened with the sad realization that it features one of the final recorded …
The Patience Stone
The enduring power of myth takes center stage in Afghani director Atiq Rahimi’s new film, The Patience Stone, which transplants …
Closed Circuit
Screenwriter Steven Knight has the narrative nose of an investigative journalist. His screenplays for films like Dirty Pretty Things and …
In A World
Witness the emergence of Lake Bell into the swelling ranks of multi-hyphenate women in the world of independent films. Joining …
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