Culture
“The Wanted 18” is a charmingly subversive human comedy
October 28, 2014This highly creative documentary film about Palestine succeeds on many levels.
Read more“The Ballad of Jane Elkins,” Texas slave woman hanged
October 28, 2014A soliloquy in which African-American slave Jane comes back alive to go over the last few days before she used an ax to split open the head of slave Master Wisdom.
Read moreFreedom of the press? “Kill the Messenger” in review
October 27, 2014Kill the Messenger raises daunting questions about the role of the press in society. This passion play is a piece of our nation's recent and ongoing history.
Read moreFrench New Wave classic flows back onto the screen
October 22, 2014The late 1950s and early 1960s was a pivotal, heady, historic time for French cinema, as Nouvelle Vague or New Wave classics flowed onto the screen.
Read moreEye in the Sky: Surveillance and the art of Arnold Mesches
October 21, 2014The manuscripts in question: Mesches' FBI file, 1945 to 1972; Arny, as he calls himself, is 91.
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