April 2016
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Over the past couple of years when Pope Francis has published major documents I forced myself to sit out the wrangling that began–I started to say "the moment they were released," but really it started well before that. So I waited a few weeks or more before reading them and commenting on them. I think…
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I recently watched the six available episodes, plus a sort of holiday special, of a British TV series called Black Mirror. It's a sort of sci-fi production, with each episode being a complete story, and no connection other than a thematic one among the episodes. The theme is the extent and effect of our immersion in…
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Here's an amusing short film (9:15) from 1938 showing the scene in the studio when a radio drama is being performed.
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Winter Light is one of my favorite films from my favorite director, Ingmar Bergman. Here’s what I said about it in a blog post back in 2007: I was startled to learn that the Swedish title is The Communicants, which is probably better, although “winter light” certainly has its applicability and resonance. I saw this back in the…
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It's not just that he has a long history of being a jerk, continues to be a jerk, and often seems proud to be a jerk. After all, we've had a number of presidents who were jerks. It's not just that he is not now and never has been any sort of conservative, and that…
Light On Dark Water 