by Joseph A. Hazani July 21, 2014
What perseverance the human spirit has! When organizing my reflection on this film, I could not but think of the adulation I bestowed upon the Irish people for enabling a Cristy Brown to overcome his cerebral palsy. If the Irish people are to be honored for creating a man who exploded his will onto the world through a left foot, what can I say about the French for creating a man who can write a....
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by Joseph A. Hazani July 15, 2014
Inside Llewyn Davis is a brief story, circling the life of a folk singer. I pause to avoid claiming Lleywn Davis is an ambitious folk singer, as he seems content to wallow in his lack of commercial success. Contrast that with other’s he surrounds himself with, who are trying their hands at becoming commercial products. Yes. Products. One such compatriot is legally....
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by Joseph A. Hazani July 10, 2014
Chef is a film that splendidly captures the revolution against the suffocation of the Last Man horde. While until the time of tweets, the profit motive married to mass production generated the necessarily degenerate mass media, vulgarizing society as a necessity of catering to the base needs the masses subscribe always to, the individual now has his lethal poisoned darts to fend off the horde.....
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