Year: 2017

“The Salt of the Earth” (2014) –Drawing with Light

Written by diana on August 13, 2017. Posted in Art, movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. No Comments on “The Salt of the Earth” (2014) –Drawing with Light

Iguana Marina Sebastiao Salgado, the renowned Brazilian sociopolitical photographer, is the subject of this emotionally harrowing documentary. The viewer witnesses photographs of heartbreaking gravity and human agony, both unprecedented and breathtaking. The 2014 Academy Award nominated The Salt of the Earth reveals Salgado’s masterpieces of portraiture, political journalism, landscape, and animals in a way that evokes strong feelings. A display of Ansel Adams this is not! Perhaps the most startling experience in watching The Salt of the Earth is the beauty that is embedded in the tragic...

Sense of an Ending (2017) –Remembrance of Things Past

Written by diana on August 6, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on Sense of an Ending (2017) –Remembrance of Things Past

The Sense of an Ending is a dramatic adaptation of the novel. It glides back and forth in time as we view the disconnected pieces of a previously unexamined life and the exploration of memory's role in constructing one's identity.

“Bordertown”– New Boundaries in Scandinavian Noir

Written by diana on July 23, 2017. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews. 2 Comments on “Bordertown”– New Boundaries in Scandinavian Noir

You can escape the big city and its frenetic fierceness, but you can’t escape murder, not even in the hinterland of Finland. That’s the psychologically disturbing theme in Bordertown, Netflix’s latest international acquisition and the latest Scandinavian Noir drama that's sure to mesmerize audiences.

The Salesman–Not Exactly Arthur Miller

Written by diana on July 17, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. No Comments on The Salesman–Not Exactly Arthur Miller

This 2017 Academy Winner for Best Foreign Film defies easy categorization. The masterful Asghar Farhadi is the director, screenwriter, and producer of the 2013 Cannes Winner, “The Past”, the 2011 Academy Award Winner of “A Separation” and his most recent, The Salesman. All three of these Iranian films are idiosyncratic narratives of Shakespearean themes . The first destabilizes the past reminding us of unintended consequences (The Past), the second focuses on the nature of truth when there are no moral absolutes (A Separation), and the third reveals primal vindictiveness...

Carmel Bach Festival–The Joy of Music

Written by diana on July 9, 2017. Posted in Art, Local travel, Unhealed Wound. No Comments on Carmel Bach Festival–The Joy of Music

Now celebrating its 80th anniversary, the world-renowned Carmel Bach Festival has just begun its summer season.

The Keepers–Another Spotlight

Written by diana on July 1, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on The Keepers–Another Spotlight

The Keepers explores the 1969 death of 26-year old Catholic nun and Baltimore schoolteacher Sister Cathy Cesnik and touches on 20-year-old Joyce Malecki's murder four days later. Both slayings remain unsolved. The cover up that follows has echoes of "Spotlight".