Journal
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After the Credits
Brief notes on films I’ve watched—what stayed with me, and something I learned. These reflections may contain spoilers. La Strada — Federico Fellini, 1954 I loved Gelsomina. Giulietta Masina was extraordinary—funny, vulnerable, strange and deeply moving without ever asking us to pity her.Perhaps the harshest thing Fellini does is take her away from us before…
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What We Give
Shoplifters (2018) — Hirokazu Kore-eda Shoplifters was heartbreaking. Kore-eda brings us quietly into this unconventional family, and somehow we begin to care for them despite all the things they do wrong. They play. They laugh. They care for one another. And gradually the question becomes: what makes a family? Blood? The law? Or the way…
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Understanding Before Judging
As I’ve been making my way through the films of F. W. Murnau, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Vittorio De Sica, Yasujirō Ozu, Elia Kazan, Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir, and the plays of Eugene O’Neill, I’ve begun to notice a thread connecting them all. These artists are not primarily interested in deciding who is right and who…
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Lupins: Why did we stop eating them?
Why did we stop eating it? Every so often I come across a food that makes me stop and wonder: Lupins have been nourishing people for thousands of years. They grow well in poor soils, are packed with nutrients, and yet today, when I ask people if they’ve ever heard of them, many haven’t. If…
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