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Why some Gothic statues show a breastfeeding Virgin Mary,
Archive for the ‘Arts reviews’ Category
January 7th, 2009
A lesson from Goya’s Duel with Cudgels.
March 15th, 2008
Category: Arts reviews, Religion
… doesn’t include Byrd, Tallis, Taverner, Josquin, or Hildegard. That’s sad.
February 29th, 2008
This week I was trapped in an aluminum tube with the movie, Mr. Magorium’s Magical Emporium. This is a piece of fluff that wastes Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman on a deeply vacuous story about a magic toy store, and how you can do anything you want if you only believe, and how accountants [...]
November 23rd, 2007
Category: Arts reviews
I saw the forgettable but reasonably charming food movie No Reservations (2007) in an airplane last week, and again tonight because my daughter brought it with her on a DVD labeled Ratatouille (2007) when she came home for Thanksgiving (I liked this version better, but more for the winking bank-shot references Pixar excels at – [...]
June 12th, 2007
Category: Arts reviews
Oh! What a Lovely War, an extraordinary movie from 1969 that records the first world war as a musical using actual songs from the period and real historical speeches and documents, intercutting fantasy scenes on the (now destroyed ) West Pier at Brighton with “realistic” battle footage, is just recently available on DVD [...]