Year: 2011

“Restrepo” – Dangerously Close to the Action

Written by diana on January 24, 2011. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on “Restrepo” – Dangerously Close to the Action

This haunting documentary, winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, chronicles very young soldiers (some younger than twenty years old) during their fourteen-month deployment in Afghanistan’s Korengal valley. A visceral view of modern battle, you cannot watch this riveting, real-life “Hurt...

“The King’s Speech”—A Personal Idiom for All of Us

Written by diana on January 17, 2011. Posted in movie reviews.

This is the third of my movie reviews so far. The first movie review, “127 Hours”, and the second, “Black Swan”, are two portraits of protagonists who have a daunting obstacle to overcome. In “127 Hours” the main character has to wound himself in the most barbarous of ways to survive. In “Black Swan”, the ballerina has to face her demons in...

Eleven Tips for Women’s Memoirs on 1/11/11

Written by diana on January 11, 2011. Posted in Blogging, Writing and Blogging Tips. 1 Comment on Eleven Tips for Women’s Memoirs on 1/11/11

Thousands of us love reading of all kinds: fiction, history, memoir. Sometimes all three are combined into one glorious book. We all know someone who is writing: a novel, a blog, a series of poems, a mystery, children’s book, cookbook, screenplay and more. And everyone knows someone in a readers’ or writers’ group. Now there is one website...

“Black Swan”—Dancing in the In-Between

Written by diana on January 1, 2011. Posted in movie reviews. 4 Comments on “Black Swan”—Dancing in the In-Between

This spellbinding movie, routinely described as a psychological thriller, is not to everyone’s taste but I absolutely loved it: dancing around the thin membrane between a fantasy/dream world and reality. Starring Natalie Portman as Nina, the beautiful but fragile ballerina who wishes to be the prima ballerina of Swan Lake, the movie opens...

Year: 2011

“Restrepo” – Dangerously Close to the Action

“The King’s Speech”—A Personal Idiom for All of Us

Eleven Tips for Women’s Memoirs on 1/11/11

“Black Swan”—Dancing in the In-Between

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