Category Archives: Rules of the Game (film)

Five Films that Changed My Life

By Robin Bates | Published: December 10, 2010

Film Friday I belong to a film group that every six weeks or so assembles to eat snacks and watch a movie, which we then discuss. We generally watch something out of the mainstream—as our host Jim Bershon (he with the big screen) puts it, “If there’s a line around the block, we don’t want [...]

Also posted in Beauty and the Beast (film), Children of Paradise (film), La Strada (film), Night at the Opera (film), Seven Samurai (film), Spirit of the Beehive (film), To Kill a Mockingbird (film) | Comments closed

A Hysterical Response to a Masterpiece

By Robin Bates | Published: November 26, 2010

Film Friday The film I write on today is one that has the resonance of great literature. It is also a film that affirms our humanity in the face of fear. Since too often we let fear set us against one another, it is good to look at a work of art that reminds us [...]

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