Widower's Tango

[This post is from April 9, 2008. I brought Moritz Thomsen's great book, Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle with me to my Philippine ...

There is something magical about writing. It is only because he has to read so much flavorless, lifeless writing that the average person...

What better subject for a Sunday than faith?  Forty years ago I saw a remarkable film called Catholics (1973) that addressed a quite ti...

[I have commented occasionally on the Philippines - the country in which I now live. The following is a post from March 2009. One of the poi...

Once again, a new movie (released last year) that relies on the short memory of filmgoers. The title, A Better Life is unintentionally ir...

To continue where last month's post, Poll Position, left off . . . But what about the latest list? Here are the Top Ten Films on the...

This was only the second post I published on this blog, which turns five years old on the 26th of this month. Bresson has been a favorite b...