‘On the Waterfront’ Film Review (1954)

by Joseph A. Hazani April 16, 2025

What does a man need to do to get a warm meal? Or better, yet, a means of moving up?    Moving up from?    In the tension of a hard-day’s work with the reality of the possibility of leaving one’s station, onto that higher ground from pigeon telecommuting, from being plucked daily to physically toil - and in grueling fashion - on the shores, moving commercial goods to....

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‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ (2014) Film Review

by Joseph A. Hazani April 1, 2025

What an amazing cinematic experience of richness in diorama. It is this visual idea to film that Mr. Anderson propels in an appetizing direction; towards an American dream of a kleptocratic necroscopy - yet remaining vividly alive with that quintessential mirth, aged well.   The plot has much ado about property. And the conniving towards acquiring rights to ease. Ease and....

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‘Dune’ (1984 AD) Film Review

by Joseph A. Hazani March 17, 2025

In a futuristic alternative universe, there is a significant cosmogenic reduction to its galactic moving parts, unto the arrival of a mythical realization of what is otherwise a permanent stasis of earthling affairs.  It is a Judaeo-Christian homage.  It is a wonderful picture, with that upmost significance in enlightening the mind of futuristic imagination, yet grounded in the stern....

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My Written Works

On the Struggling Artist: An Essay

A philosophical....

On the Christian Business Ethic: An Essay

Analysis of the role that Christian morality has played in the development of commerce and....

On the Necessity of Color in the Fine Arts: An essay

A philosophical exploration of color and its use in Renaissance, abstract and modern fine....

Towards an Understanding of Jesus Christ: An Essay

Nietzsche had incredible disdain for Christianity being "Judaized Rome", of the slave morality of Judaism creeping up and....