A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Monday, April 28, 2014

THE POWER OF FILM

David Thomson, Moments That Made the Movies (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2013) ("And see, it's part of the soul of schtick, and of so many of our movies, that pretending is sweeter than living. After a hundred years of film, maybe, we have a population, very hip yet pretty inexperienced, that has seen so many wild, outrageous things on screens that it sort of knows how to do them. It knows how to fake it, and to act. But beneath that there is a tempest of behaviors that perhaps we never get to. You wonder if Harry and sally get married. will they produce children or a hit TV sitcom?" Id. at 253.).