2009

Eartha Kitt 1927-2008: Catwoman Schooled the Lady Bird

CD cover: Comet Records 2005.
In 1968, entertainer Eartha Kitt spoke truth to power during a misbegotten war, and paid the price.

Ron Asheton 1948-2009: Why Stooges Guitar Ruled

Graphics: Sony Music, Bad Subjects.
The Stooges' guitarist has fallen, so the resurrected Punk band is no more.

Waltz With Bashir

A review of the superb and distressing animated documentary, which, even though it is meticulously grounded in the excavation of a specific historical moment, is also universally relevant to the topics of war and trauma.

The Revolution of Everyday Life: Sam Mendes' Dead End Revolutionary Road

Jason Harsin
Kate Winslett and Leonardo DiCaprio: the great reunion. In Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road, a dramatic critique of alienation and cooptation of creative, free activity in liberal democratic consumer societies.