Archive for the tag 'movies'

Shrieking

It should come as no surprise that composers of music for motion pictures continually mine the classical repertoire, just as contemporary novelists grab whatever they can from the stocks of literature, ancient and modern. (Have you heard the story, for instance, of “a cultivated man of middle age [who] looks back on the story of [...]

FOIA

Happy Birthday, Freedom of Information Act! Forty years old today.
Having just watched Syriana, which purports to show how the world really works, I can say I fully endorse the headline of Jimmy Carter’s commentary: We Need Fewer Secrets.
And having rented The Syrian Bride by mistake—it was the only DVD box on the Syriana shelf and [...]