Mehnaz M. Afridi Tackles Extremism from the Holocaust to Present
on Thursday, March 26, 2015
Eight years ago Mehnaz M. Afridi had a shocking encounter she's still struggling to make sense of, fortunately. The setting? Dachau, Germany.
Little had prepared the Pakistani-born Muslim for the impact the Shoah site might have on her. Today Dr. ...
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"The Kindergarten Teacher": Verse vs Universe
on Friday, March 20, 2015
Where does poetic inspiration come from? Nadav Lapid's new film The Kindergarten Teacher wants to know. But something heavier is on its mind: the liabilities of that lyrical muse. We live in vulgar times, as is made plain from the opening shot of a ...
Director Simon Curtis Highlights "Woman in Gold"
on Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Woman in Gold, like The Wizard of Oz, is the story of a niece on a quest to regain family property after a storming. It has good and evil conjurers and even a straw man. Yet, contrary to the Kansas reverie, Simon Curtis's new film begins in a ...
"ISIS: The State of Terror"
on Friday, March 13, 2015
Remember when "Isis" was just an ancient Egyptian goddess? For most of us that all changedlast year as news began streaming in of a violent jihadist group in Iraq and Syria. Now America and some 60 other nations are battling these extremist ...
"My Friend Victoria" Takes Doris Lessing to the Cinema
on Thursday, March 12, 2015
An ideal literary diet includes solid screen adaptations -- stories you can watch with the added spicings of another's imagination. Provided, of course, that the film serves up enough narrative textures to deliver satisfaction. Happily, this is the ...
