Saturday, November 19, 2016
La femme du Vème (2011)
A college lecturer flees to Paris after a scandal costs him his job, and in the City of Light he meets a widow who might be involved in a series of murders.
Messy psychological thriller with an otherwise good cast wobbles between reality and fanatsy, but hardly uses the imbalance effectively.
Maltin***: "...this moody, dreamlike psychological thriller (which may or may not entirely in the protagonist's head) is often confusing and indecipherable but is very well acted and beautifully made."
First Lines: Allan Bloom - The Closing of the American Mind
I used to think that young Americans began whatever education they were to get at the age of eighteen, that their early lives were spiritually empty and that they arrived at the university clean slates unaware of their deeper selves and the world beyond their superficial experience.
Friday, November 18, 2016
First Lines: Edward W. Said - Orientalism
On June 13, 1910, Arthur James Balfour lectured the House of Commons on "the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt."
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
First Lines: Peter Singer - Animal Liberation
"Animal Liberation" may sound more like a parody of other liberation movements than a serious objective.
