Widower's Tango

While I must admit to having found Jun Ichikawa's 2004 film Tony Takitani strangely beautiful, it is additionally remarkable for having...

My list of favorite directors must immediately give one a sense of my concept of film art, since all of them are realists of some kind. One...

I watched the Kurosawa film Seven Samurai these past two nights with my sister. I still have no idea how she could've been my sister an...

Spinoza wrote that "Love is the feeling of pleasure, accompanied by our knowledge of its cause." The mystery of love, the magnific...

Practically all my life, except for a few years when I lived in Denver, I have been living in hick towns. Towns like Albany, Georgia and Col...

Some people wonder where the "poetic sense" kicks in - if it is simply an intellectual faculty, an ideology imposed from without. ...

Neruda told the story of Josie Bliss in his memoirs, Isla Negra , then he composed a book of poems inspired by his memorias. Loves: Josie Bl...