I went to see " The Reader " yesterday, expecting great things. I came away confused, disappointed and, yes, not a little angry. ...

Alice Neel is one of those many artists who were sidelined, for too many years, by the great sweep of 20th century modernist abstraction and...

I sat through Milk with the knowledge, of course, that this dedicated, charismatic leader would be killed before the movie ended, so there...

I mistrusted Nixon from first sight. He just looked shifty. Something about the eyes, the bearing... I could never understand how the Amer...

We watched a truly wonderful movie last night called Simplicity . Ellie brought it home on loan from her Wednesday morning art teacher and,...

How many living beings died in the wars of the 20th century? How many had their lives destroyed, both military and civilian? How many lost...

(Please first click on this link to go to my nightmare scenario for the Electoral College, as posted on the Huffington Post. I'd appre...

(This one's for Thailandchani , who was kind enough to request another film recommendation.) Is there something, I often wonder, that w...

I have another movie to recommend--this one in current theatrical release: The Counterfeiters . Set in the German concentration camps durin...

We finally got around to watching "Across the Universe" last night--the Julie Taymor movie based on songs by The Beatles. Since w...

... from last night: I fly over to England to visit my parents (both now, in reality, long gone.) I take an old-fashioned steam engine trai...

Enough of politics for the moment. Let's talk movies. Ellie and I Netflixed " The Story of the Weeping Camel " last week and...

Readers who have followed these pages for a while will know that the Holocaust is never very far from my mind. I'm not sure of the reas...

It was a strange pairing, I have to say. We had DVDs of two movies, and watched them one after the other on Saturday evening: " No Cou...

… brought to life in modern, feminist garb in Antonia’s Line , the 1996 Dutch movie that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. We rented it ...

(cross-posted with Accidental Dharma ) Thanks to my wife, Ellie, who put this book into my hands--with the words "Accidental Dharma....

Salomo n Huerta , Untitled Interesting, is...

It's wonderful how things come together with mysterious and impeccable timing, just exactly when they're needed. We received in the...

( NOTE: You might not want to read this if you haven't yet seen the movie, and plan to. I don't think I give away much, but just in...

It was one of those dreadful nights you wouldn't wish on anyone. It started out okay. We watched "The History Boys"--one of ...