Gloomy Sunday
Gloomy Sunday: a meditation on mood. As the title suggests, the mood belongs to “Sunday”. It is not personal, as we so like to believe…
Category: Cinema
The Undoing Project
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World[1] We do not know how far the process of coming to consciousness can extend, or where it…
Auguries
In times of uncertainty, chaos, or even catastrophe, we would be hard pressed today to believe that a real government, let alone individuals, could take…
Darkness Gathers
“SNOWDEN”: The Darkness Gathers[1] The perspective I bring to this “review” requires a particular discipline. I view the movie as an art form and a…
Embrace of the Serpent
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT tells the epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last…
Birdman
“The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance” “Koyaanisqatsi” is a Hopi word, translated as “life out of balance”. The 1982 movie of the same name portrays Western…