Art should be solace. Which is not to say that it should always be comforting, much less comfortable. Rather, that it should always be there to remind us that we are human when we doubt. This is a truly extraordinary time, when our need for what artists produce has become acute, driven by events that […]
“Don’t tell, show” goes the creative writing rule. And it’s a good one. Telling is not only inelegant and obvious, it pulls the reader or viewer out of the narrative, and denies them the satisfaction of drawing their own conclusions. But when it comes to film, what constitutes telling and showing has come to be […]
A sidestep into film this week, because I promised Feminéma I would make my case. Sometimes a film is too stylish for its own good. It saddened me greatly how little appreciation the 2003 movie Down With Love got from audiences and critics. Perhaps, coming a few years before the Mad Men phenomenon made the 60s […]
