First Lines: Jack London - The Scarlet Plague

The way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad.

Michelle Behennah

A day in the life, Sep 6

A day in the life, Sep 6, three stones in a wall

Luba Ramirez

New Stuff: Tori Amos

Andrea Carrazco

ph: Diego Villarreal

Silence (2016)

 

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism. 

 

Highly accomplished adaptation of  Shûsaku Endô's novel is visually stunning and has strong performances, although it simplifies the book's far more complex theological analysis; the closing scene is especially disappointing in which the director seems to make a point of his own.

Eva Varlamova

New Stuff: The Ends of the World

Bridget Malcolm

ph: Lachlan Bailey