The One I Love
Does being in love with someone mean one loves all the parts or only the best of their significant other? Of course it includes for better and for worse. Yet what happens when the bad and bleak begin to overcrowd and suffocate the good? Is it time to cut and run, or is there
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The Hustler
The struggle to get by, beyond simply to make ends meet but to feed oneself, goes neglected and unnoticed the farther removed one is from the bottom cellars of society. There, not so much an underworld or underclass as the basement of the house of civilization, an entire culture of people resides. Taking risks
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Frequencies
Frequencies attempts to examine the role fate plays in each person’s destiny. And ultimately, how much freedom we genuinely have in determining each of our lives. It’s complicated to live in a world which is infinitely out of our control, and what little part we do have control over, it often conflicts and interferes
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Venus in Fur
This film was adapted from a play and it really drives home the incongruity in the presumptions of the course of civilization through the unveiling of the sexual repressiveness that exists in Christianity. One of the gravest sins I have personally committed until I was set in my ways was presuming the linear, chronological
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Exodus
This is a film that has a terrific target, but the focus is so dreadful it’s insulting. This especially rings true when it compares to its predecessor The Ten Commandments at a time when the quality of human being is demonstratively more substantial than it is now. That, for instance, an audience had the patience
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Somewhere
This is a serious but predictable examination of the life of a Hollywood movie star and the humanity that is robbed from him. This is as accurate as we can expect coming from someone as intimate to this lifestyle as Ms. Coppola is. And it is not a wonder then that we hear about
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