Wall-E
A charming fable of an environmentally friendly machine which proves to be the redeemer of mankind. Where have I heard something like this before?
Entry from July 9, 2008
This summer, on eight successive Tuesday evenings, I am presenting a series called Isn’t It Romantic? Romance at the Movies, 1934-1989 at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. (go to www.eppc.org/movies for details or to register to attend). The fourth film in the series was Brief Encounter (1945) by David Lean, shown on July…
Brief Encounter
[See “Entry from July 9, 2008” under “My Diary”]
Entry from July 3, 2008
My colleague and friend, Roger Kimball, elsewhere picks up on a line in an article by Patricia Cohen in today’s New York Times about changes in the political allegiances among younger faculty in American universities: “In general, information on professors’ political and ideological leanings tends to be scarce,” she writes — of what is presumably one…
Entry from July 2, 2008
This summer, on eight successive Tuesday evenings, I am presenting a series called Isn’t It Romantic? Romance at the Movies, 1934-1989 at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. (go to www.eppc.org/movies for details or to register to attend). The third film in the series was The Philadelphia Story (1940) by George Cukor, shown on…
Philadelphia Story, The
[See “Entry from July 2, 2008” under “My Diary”]
Entry from July 1, 2008
It’s remarkable enough that a conservative has been elected mayor of London. Much more remarkable, in my view, is the fact that a journalist has been elected mayor of London. That Boris Johnson should be both a conservative and a journalist beggars belief. It’s as if the late William F. Buckley Jr. had won his…
Entry from June 30, 2008
The “historic” Episcopal church in the town where I live — it’s historic, by the way, because George Washington worshiped there — recently hung a banner on the elegant wrought-iron railings that top the brick wall around the 18th century churchyard. Suspended just above the spot where a marble slab commemorates thirty-eight Confederate soldiers, former prisoners…
Grand Larceny
The trouble with violent video games is that those who play them won’t be inspired to take up lives of crime — From The American Spectator of June, 2008
Entry from June 25, 2008
This summer, on eight successive Tuesday evenings, I am presenting a series called Isn’t It Romantic? Romance at the Movies, 1934-1989 at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. (go to www.eppc.org/movies for details or to register to attend). The second film in the series was The Shop Around the Corner (1940) by Ernst…
Shop Around the Corner, The
[See “Entry from June 25, 2008” under “My Diary”]
Entry from June 18, 2008
This summer, on eight successive Tuesday evenings, I am presenting a series called Isn’t It Romantic? Romance at the Movies, 1934-1989 at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. (go to www.eppc.org/movies for details or to register to attend). The series opened on Tuesday, June 17th with It Happened One Night by Frank Capra….