Chris Barsanti's Blog, page 97
December 3, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Look Out the ‘Rear Window’
Rear Window is one of the great movies of the 20th century. Suspenseful, humorous, inventive, and skillfully manipulative; it’s the …
December 1, 2017
Screening Room: ‘I, Tonya’
In 1994, the world of professional skating was hurled into the burgeoning tabloid TV landscape when an assailant clubbed skater …
November 26, 2017
Writer’s Desk: C.S. Lewis on the ‘Right’ Words
Writers of fantasy are not assumed to be sticklers for language. After all, they revel in the invented and magical. …
November 25, 2017
Reader’s Corner: Richard Adams’s Book Collection
The Guardian has some news for British bibliophiles: On December 14, the literary collection of the late and very great …
November 24, 2017
Screening Room: ‘The Final Year’
The documentary The Final Year, which tracks Barack Obama’s foreign policy team in the pell-mell last year of his presidency, opens …
November 20, 2017
Screening Room: ‘Darkest Hour’
In May 1940, as the German army tore through Belgium and France, instead of uniting against a mortal threat, England …
November 19, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Write for the Future or Right Now?
This week, Tom Stoppard (Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) won the David Cohen prize for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. …
November 16, 2017
Quote of the Day: Meryl Streep Digs Journalists
Speaking at the the annual awards for the Committee to Protect Journalists last night, Meryl Streep—who plays Katharine Graham in …
November 14, 2017
Screening Room: Outrages and Miracles at DOC NYC
The eighth DOC NYC film festival continues through this Thursday, with more movies than you would ever have time to …
November 12, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Pull It All Apart
In his Essays in the Art of Writing, Robert Louis Stevenson—born on November 13, 1850—showed little patience with the idea that …
