Widower's Tango

Get rid of the miracles, and the whole world will fall at the feet of Jesus Christ. Rousseau  Not until this past week have I had a chance ...

What hath Roth got? – Saul Bellow (1) That box in which a twelve-year-old was twelve years old forever. The rest of us live and grow older ...

Novelist, playwright and stage director Florian Zeller’s first film, The Father , based on his own acclaimed play, is not what I expected. I...

How many people die every year on hospital operating tables? It must be one of the major causes of death, and the reason why doctors have to...

When James Agee died of a heart attack in a taxi in New York City on May 16, 1955 (my birthday, three years later), the tributes to him fro...

One of the Japanese film’s most popular and enduring genres has been the chanbara or samurai film. The finer examples of the genre have alw...

James Agee The era of the greatest discussion and debate about film was in the 1960s, which was also the period of the greatest creativity i...