Two reviews and a gripe

1. The Lara­mie Pro­ject, pro­duced by the Strath­more The­at­rical Arts Group, writ­ten by Moises Kaufman This ambi­tious play tackles the beat­ing and after­math of Lara­mie, Wyom­ing res­id­ent, Mat­thew Shep­ard in 1998. Anyone who was an adult back then will...

Reflections on being

When I haven’t been catch­ing up on work recently, I’ve been watch­ing film fest­ival films. The week­end has been par­tic­u­larly reward­ing: I highly recom­mend Al Gore’s An Incon­veni­ent Truth about cli­mate change and global warm­ing which I saw...

Blessed are the peacemakers

There are cer­tain moments that stand out after a polit­ical film about intense emo­tions, telling human ges­tures and moments of trust or intim­acy or cour­age. In the case of I Know I’m Not Alone, Michael Franti’s new film, those moments include the way...

Introducing Sociology

Finally got a chance to read this art­icle hyper­people sent me. It’s a superb soci­olo­gical ana­lysis of Eyes Wide Shut, one of my favour­ite films ever, and cer­tainly my favour­ite Kubrick. I’d dis­cussed the first line issues with Mark before (Alice’s...

Angels and cowboys

Last night, crystal_storm and I went to a ses­sion of MQFF and watched the boys’ short films. As a whole it was good: the first few films were the usual fare, nar­rat­ives of first love and teen crushes, of older man meets younger man, of older...