Aristocrats, The
Dirty jokes just aren’t what they used to be. What do you have to do around here to violate a taboo, anyway?
Bioethics at the Movies
The popular culture everywhere in the West is one of practical atheism, but Europe may be more God-haunted than America — From The New Atlantis, Spring, 2005
Warrior, The
A remarkably watchable Anglo-Indian lesson in moral realities without any moralizing
Rosebud-Hunting
What made Mark Felt into “Deep Throat”? Too late to find that out, perhaps, but we can still hope to learn what made Bob Woodward create him. From The New York Sun of July 12, 2005
Entry from July 11, 2005
A few days ago, the anti-war left and high-ranking members of the Democratic party — which increasingly speak with one voice on matters of national security — bitterly attacked President Bush for linking, once again, the war in Iraq to the terror attacks of four years ago in his speech at Ft. Bragg. “This war…
Beautiful Country, The
An epic tale of an outcast Vietnamese boy’s quest to find his American father
De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped)
In his previous film, Read My Lips (Sur Mes Lèvres), of 2001, the director Jacques Audiard presented us with a Sartrean hymn to criminality as the route to personal authenticity and moral and existential purity, so it is not surprising that he should have seen in a remake of James Toback’s Fingers (1978) an opportunity…
Beat That My Heart Skipped, The (De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté)
Torn between thuggery and a career as a classical pianist? You must be French. Yet this Frenchman began life as Harvey Keitel
Entry from June 21, 2005
The left is predictably eager to find in the so-called “Downing Street Memo” — in which a British intelligence official wrote back in July of 2002 his impression that President Bush had already decided to go to war in Iraq and that “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy” — “the smoking…