Sunday, December 2, 2012

Cinematically Inclined: “Anna Karenina”

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“I thank God that the curse of love has been lifted from me.” I first studied Leo Tolstoy’s mammoth Anna Karenina in my senior year of...
Monday, November 5, 2012

Open Letter: Why Eduard Khil’s “Trololo” Should Be the Christmas #1

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Every so often, a wondrous Internet meme of a non-lexical, nonsense song becomes earworm. A prime example is Adriano Celentano’s “Prisenco...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Cinematically Inclined: on Michael Haneke’s “Amour”

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“Dance me to the end of love” – Madeleine Peyroux What happens when happily ever after ends? Michael Haneke, the distinguished Austria...
Monday, October 8, 2012

The German Opera Project: “Wagner’s Dream” (VIFF 2012)

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It’s nice to know that in parts of North America, high culture can still be a big deal. In the fall of 2010, New York was in a furor when ...
Sunday, October 7, 2012

VIFF 2012: “A Royal Affair”

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I love palace intrigue. If the naughty goings-on of Prince Harry this summer in Las Vegas were any indication, so does the rest of the fre...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

TV Review: “The Song of Lunch”

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The title gives it away, even though it’s hiding in plain sight. While etymologically it signifies nothing, it reveals that the BBC prod...
Saturday, June 2, 2012

Summer Song 2012: Loreen’s “Euphoria”

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Last year, I wrote about the importance of the summer song . Identifying a song with the summertime is part of growing up and follows us i...