Film: 5 Broken Cameras Directors: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi Screenplay: Guy Davidi Genre: Documentary ?There’s a little bit of heaven in that muddy road to freedom.? from ?Follow the Drinking Gourd? (American Negro spiritual) Battle at the Centre of the Earth we’re standing at a steel gate at the West Bank barrier that keeps… Read more »
Reading Differently In 1664 Margaret Cavendish wrote Sociable Letters, a fictionalized group of personalized missives that intentionally or not shed a great deal of light on the peculiar reading and writing practices of women. Her remarks on Plutarch’s Lives were critical of the conventional humanist way of reading texts, and she was equally skeptical about… Read more »
Film: Fat Kid Rules the World (2012) Director: Matthew Lillard Cast: Jacob Wysocki, Matt O?Leary, and Billy Campbell ?Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.? Barry Manilow Observing the Folly from a High and Lonely Place and Consenting to Join It Have you ever painted yourself so tightly into a corner that when an obviously dysfunctional… Read more »
Book: Andrea Zanzotto, Haiku for a Season ?Joy of July, source of all joys in the shape of haiku or, maybe, other poems? sweetly, palely in nature sleeps the writing The little volcano named July lets flow a tender lava for everything? let life be something more than a dream? Andrea Zanzotto in Haiku for… Read more »
Patricia Deslauriers is the Quebecois jazz contrabassist spearheading the Patricia Deslauriers Trio, whose recording debut is a reverent tribute to the songs of beloved Quebec songster Richard Desjardins (read the Voice review here). Recently she took the time to answer Wanda Waterman’s questions about her mentors, her new album, and her upcoming career plans. (See… Read more »
Film: Samsara Director: Ron Fricke Genre: Documentary ?The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit?this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.? Goethe The Silent Verbosity… Read more »
Film: Abel Director: Diego Luna Cast: Jose Maria Yazpik, Christopher Ruiz-Esparza, Carlos Aragon, Karina Gidi, Gerardo Ruiz-Esparza, and Geraldine Alejandra ?I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.? ?Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.?… Read more »