Here dies Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura). For 30 years, he has been pushing pencils and stamping government documents inside the cluttered offices of Tokyo’s City Hall. He has 75 days left to live (stomach cancer), a son who pays him … Continue reading IKIRU
Art has come full circle for author Tod Davies, at least a portion of it has. This month, the fourth book in her History of Arcadia series, Report to Megalopolis: or The Post-modern Prometheus, hits shelves, and a tiny voice Davies … Continue reading Tod Davies on REPORT TO MEGALOPOIS: OR THE POST-MODERN PROMETHEUS
We seem to be talking about the American dream a lot these days. And not just how to get it, but what is it, exactly? When the Framers of the Constitution set down those three unalienable rights—life, liberty, and the … Continue reading GENERATION WEALTH
It’s a famous shot from one of the most widely seen movies in the history of cinema: Scarlett O’Hara searching desperately for a doctor in a sea of wounded and dead soldiers. As Scarlett searches, the camera cranes high into … Continue reading BLACKKKLANSMAN
Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki is in search of the American Dream. To find it, he loads up Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls-Royce with a camera rig and drives around with politicians, actors, musicians, activists, and anyone else willing to climb in and … Continue reading THE KING and KING CREOLE
If great comedy must involve something beyond laughter,” film critic James Agee writes, “Lloyd was not a great comedian. If plain laughter is any criterion—and it is a healthy counterbalance to the other—few people have equaled him, and nobody has … Continue reading SPEEDY
Meet Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher); she’s 13, lives in a suburban home with her single father (Josh Hamilton), and is about as put together as you might expect a 13-year-old to be. Practically bursting at the seams with personality, thoughts, … Continue reading EIGHTH GRADE
If ever there was a word to describe Fred Rogers—the host of the long-running PBS show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood—it would be “kind.” Not a word you hear a lot these days. I suppose that’s why so many look back and think … Continue reading WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?
If you’ve seen a hundred westerns, then you’ve seen it a hundred times: a mysterious figure rides into town looking for someone. With guns drawn, frontier justice is enforced, the two characters’ shared backstory bubbles up to the surface, and, … Continue reading Nathan and David Zellner on DAMSEL
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