How did I ever miss out on the life of Buffy Sainte Marie? After watching her life story on screen this afternoon at the Nanaimo Fringe Flicks season finale with 12 people from our cohousing community, it seems tragic that I somehow did. What was I doing during the 70s and 80s? Breast-feeding her own baby on Sesame Street. Who knew?!
What a beautiful, passionate, courageous and gifted human being! The fact that she was Indigenous Cree drives the point…
Hard work, modesty, discipline . . .
The audacity of opening up a chocolate shop during the Lenten season designated for penitence and abstinence.
. . . to awaken the passions.
Oh no I mustn’t. Mademoiselle is in mourning for her husband.
There is good reason Babette’s Feast remains one of my favourite films. Chocolat is a film in the same spirit of grace over aestheticism, freedom and love over austerity and penitence. I love it for many of the…
A devastating expose of an American and British plot to stage a coup and overthrow a democratic government in Iran to advance their own oil interests. The apparent ease of success of this desperate mission has cast a long shadow over history by opening the door for multiple subsequent US attempts to overthrow powers in many other countries around the world.
Those who have devoted decades of their lives to gather the myriad of materials and witnesses to put this…
I had a dream last night about this movie. I was ushered into a room with Osama bin Laden. I did not feel hatred for him . . . more a sense of wonder. This only served to reinforce how highly conflicted I am about the ongoing war against terrorism - a deep ambivalence which I could not separate from my interaction with this movie.
Was the assassination of bin Laden an act of US heroism, a final victory over…
