The film Luce is beautiful, haunting, and profound precisely because it doesn’t take the easy path. It doesn’t disguise the underlying truth that our endless search for saints to canonize and witches to burn is nothing but a cover for our failure to deal with the much less dramatic troubles in our own lives.
READ MOREThe Obamas may have intended to make a film about workplace culture clashes, but American Factory is at its core damning snapshot of American labor entitlement in an age of increasing globalization.
READ MORESomething tells me that if we are ever going to regain the footing in public culture, the Brooks path might be the one to make it happen.
READ MOREImagine there are two people, Jason and Namor, and they have these production possibilities for crimes prevented and movies made per year.
READ MOREInstead of worrying about the rights over her songs falling into the wrong hands, she should understand that unleashing her work from the tight grasp of IP’s claws would benefit her, as it would set her apart from other artists, and benefit all humankind, as others would be able to improve on what she’s done.
READ MOREIt’s a rare artist who elicits the kind of widespread emotional homage that Elton John is receiving right now, hopefully, many years before his career is really over.
READ MOREThe origin of money, the history of central banks, the operation and destruction of the gold standard, the rise of inflation and massive government debt, the disastrous bailouts of 2008 – it’s all covered in an outstanding hour-long documentary appearing on PBS stations called In Money We Trust.
READ MOREWe need some protection from the evil eye that modern politics is working daily to unleash.
READ MOREYou are not in it for the money? That might be the source of the problem.
READ MOREEvery idealist hopes that humankind can learn from history. There is plenty of evidence that we do not.
READ MOREThe wonderful movie based on the life of Freddie Mercury and his band makes a great case that commerce can be and is the friend to art. It has always been so, but we are only now fully coming to terms with what this implies for the artistic endeavor generally.
READ MOREThe Incredibles must discover the fortitude to push through and say no to those who want to bury talent in a thicket of mediocracy.
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