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Beasts of the Cretaceous II
After being delivered to a child psychologist to exorcise my affection for all things gone – [...]
The Yellow Brick Road
It’s Saturday evening and I’m hanging out with my English speaking "Meet Up "group on Milan's [...]
Medicine: bad moon rising
When I first moved to Italy, any high school graduate who thought they might like to [...]
Three Identical Strangers
Director Tim Wardle's “Three Identical Strangers” starts simply enough with the 1980 meeting of identical triplets who, until [...]
Color cuisine
I once knew someone whose child would eat only white foods. Who knows, maybe she outgrew it later, [...]
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Mind the Gap
Skateboarding is the ostensible theme of this award-winning documentary by first-time director Bing Liu. And while the skateboarding scenes are [...]
Hot blood, cold war
In a year in cinema dominated by both race and films “based on a true story,” “Cold War,” filmed in [...]
Love letters to heal the pain
A decade ago, columnist Kristine Crane met a man on an Italian train and felt a pull. From this came an email bond forged of grief.
All the time in the world
One day soon the United States will strike a face-saving deal to extricate its troops from Afghanistan. It will be [...]
The Favourite
The trailer markets “The Favourite” as British court farce, with clips of lavishly dressed scene-eaters. Ever-challenging director Yorgos Lanthimos, however, [...]
If Umbria could swim
Fish in Umbria has always been scarce. An inland province has no watery pastures. As a result, most Umbrians are [...]
“Civilizing” America’s schools
No sooner had I ranted about the perils of standardized tests and how over-managed kids were losing time to play [...]
Fallacies on immigration
Whenever I used to tell people that I lived in Italy, the response was almost inevitable. "Oh, that's always been [...]