by jkylegregory | Oct 23, 2024 | Articles, Film, Rinus
Green Border – Our humanitarian crisis Green Border by the Polish director Agnieszka Holland was awarded with the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Filmfestival. I had to wait till last week to watch this movie at our local cinema, where the film had its...
by jkylegregory | Sep 27, 2024 | Articles, Film, Rinus
Vengeance as a Dead-End Street – Two films of Robert Guédiguian ”The man who seeks vengeance is like a fly banging into a window failing to see that the door is wide open.” This old Armenian proverb comes on the screen at the end of the 2008 film Lady Jane from...
by jkylegregory | Sep 10, 2024 | Articles, Books, Debbie
The Door by Magda Szabo The Door was written and takes place in Budapest, Hungary during the communist regime ( which is why it was not published until 1987). It is a fascinating story about a 20 year relationship between a struggling writer and her housekeeper....
by jkylegregory | Aug 27, 2024 | Articles, Books, Craig, Mary
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden by Camille T. Dungy We were waiting for our flight out to California and having a few minutes free, I decided to check the offerings at the airport bookstore. Often, a few new popular reads are tucked in between the usual...
by jkylegregory | Jun 20, 2024 | Articles, Film, Rinus
Imagining Another World Every now and then I’ve written earlier about films that dramatize the working-class struggles when humanness is sacrificed on the altar of corporate and capitalist interests. The ones that come to mind are Two Days, One Night from 2014...
by jkylegregory | May 28, 2024 | Articles, Craig, Visual Arts
From Dali’s World to Mine Recently I had the opportunity with my wonderful sister to experience an immersive art presentation featuring the artist, Salvador Dalí. I know, for purists, this form of art is looked down on, but I can’t help returning to such events...
