Perspectives from a Professor
If you are not yet on the Men Of A Certain Age bandwagon – climb on up. This show just keeps getting better and better. Now that Glee is gone for the season, the only new shows I’m still relishing are The Good Wife, Modern Family, and Mercy. And, of course, Men Of A Certain …
I was curious to see what Peter Jackson would do with The Lovely Bones. While I’m ambivalent about The Lord of Rings, I always rather liked Jackson’s 1994 film Heavenly Creatures and thought that if anyone had a chance to take Alice Sebold’s finely crafted novel and turn it into a film that is as …
Julian Fellowes wrote the script for Gosford Park – which I love as a film and not just because Robert Altman provides such a telling, outsider’s perspective on social class in England – but I’ve yet to see another of his films that works so well as a narrative. The Young Victoria is a good …
Of the three films playing at a/perture cinema this weekend in Winston-Salem, I’ve seen two of them and recommend both! Ethan and Joel Coen’s latest film, A Serious Man, is a 1960s retelling of the Job story. The film is fascinating (as the Coens are wont to be) but not wholly satisfying. The cultural context …
I have recently produced an updated, 30-minute version of the documentary Martha in Lattimore that is available online (free of charge) for anyone who wishes to view it or download a copy. Here’s the link in case you want to take a look: http://www.wfu.edu/documentary/news/ The Documentary Film Program at Wake Forest University is making the …