Cézanne and I (Cézanne et moi)

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 24, 2019October 24, 2019 Film, Literature

Click Here to Read: Cézanne and I (Cézanne et moi): The relationship of painter Paul Cézanne and novelist Émile Zola By David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site on October 24, 2019.

A Monstrous Betrayal

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 12, 2019October 12, 2019 Film, History, Politics

Click Here to Read: A Monstrous Betrayal: Caroline Fourest’s ‘Sisters in Arms’ arrives just in time for the Ottoman Anschluss against Syrian Kurdistan By Bernard-Henri Lévy on the Tablet website on October 10, 2019.

“Pain and Glory” Tells Autumnal Truths

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 8, 2019October 8, 2019 Books, Film

Click Here to Read: “Pain and Glory” Tells Autumnal Truths: Gathering his obsessions together like old friends, Pedro Almodóvar has made one of his richest and most sombre films yet By Anthony Lane in the New Yorker on October 4, 2019.

Click Here to Purchase: Pedro Almodóvar: A Cinema of Desire, Passion and Compulsion edited by Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucille Spira with Merle Molofsky from IPbooks.net

Where’s My Roy Cohn?: A documentary on McCarthy’s right-hand man, mentor to Trump

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 8, 2019October 8, 2019 Film, Politics

Click Here to Read: Where’s My Roy Cohn?: A documentary on McCarthy’s right-hand man, mentor to Trump By Fred Mazelis on the World Socialist Web Site on October 7, 2019.

Movies Monday: A Man and A Woman

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 7, 2019October 6, 2019 Film

Click Here to Read: A Man and a Woman: Old Grief Can Interfere With New Love by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen on her Characters on the Couch blog on October 2, 2019.

The Marx Brothers in ‘Hello, Dalí’

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 6, 2019October 6, 2019 Arts, Film, Literature

Click Here to Read: The Marx Brothers in ‘Hello, Dalí’: An unrealized surrealist film project known as ‘Giraffes on Horseback Salad’ is rendered in comix, the latest of a century of Talmudic riffs on the disruptive Vaudevillian outsiders By J. Hoberman on the Tablet website on October 4, 2019.

‘Pain and Glory’ Review: Almodóvar’s Dazzling Art of Self-Creation

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 5, 2019October 5, 2019 Film

Click Here to Read: ‘Pain and Glory’ Review: Almodóvar’s Dazzling Art of Self-Creation Antonio Banderas plays a filmmaker in crisis in Pedro Almodóvar’s movie about loss, love, imagination and memory By Manohla Dargis in The New York Times on October 3, 2019.