9/11 reflections

We haven’t mentioned it much today, but it’s there in the background. We all know precisely where we were and what we were doing when the planes hit the towers. We know that the world with which we are most familiar – the privileged, secure world of unquestioned entitlement  – took a turn towards aContinue reading “9/11 reflections”

Movie Dipping

How could two films be so different yet so similar? I saw them randomly and almost back to back (give or take a week or two). Both drama/comedies, both dealing with the paradoxical art and escapism of cinema, both unconsciously aware that the “acting out” before the camera mirrored the real life dramas of theContinue reading “Movie Dipping”