Thanks for your emails.
Glad you liked the articles about Foreign Picture Oscar and the incorporation of Buddhist practice into psychotherapy.
Concerning Bill Maher's post.
The link is provided immediately under the first meme which makes me think your tablet has a glitch that failed to upload this component.
In any event, here's the direct link.
Bill Maher Compares Melania Trump's Marriage To The Holocaust
When I got home, I streamed "Mudbound," the made-by-Netflix film that received 3 Oscar nominations.
Although elements of "Mudbound" -- including a poorly-realized conclusion and a too-pastiche-y backdrop (often relieved by harsh violence) -- are open to criticism, I was often riveted by Mudbound, particularly its revelatory moments of black-white relationship in the Old South; the remarkable love and cheer manifest in the midst of poverty which calls to mind the difficult New Testament passage, "Happy are the poor for theirs is the kingdom of heaven"; and the unprecedently-raw race hatred manifest by the male lead's father. (It can be argued that "Mudbound" has three "male leads.")
"Happy are the poor..."
3.) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+6%3A20&version=MSG
(It is worth reading all three of the above translations.)
(It is worth reading all three of the above translations.)
Here's a negative IMDb user view that deserves reading:
A flat, self-important movie. I'm baffled by the critical bouquets.
Richard Burin9 October 2017
Ronsel quick-drying mud stain: it does exactly what it says on the tin – attempts to create a weighty, socially-conscious art movie from Hillary Jordan's plotty, slightly trashy but well-meaning page- turner.
Dee Rees's film spends more time in battle, fleshes out the Ronsel- Jamie relationship, and dwells on the minutiae of African-American life in the Deep South, but in a choppily uninvolving way, and at the expense of Laura's intriguing story of love, repression, sexual and racial guilt.
Critically, it never summons the book's sense of inexorable, fatalistic dread, nor knows what to do as it reaches its climax, which is first silly, then rushed and finally pointlessly and unconvincingly rose-tinted.
Mudbound has a few painterly images, good performances from Jason Mitchell and Carey Mulligan (who has one fantastic scene largely disconnected from the narrative and the worst pregnancy prop in decades) and an unvarnished understanding of the unglamorous, subservient pragmatism needed to survive as a black man in '40s Mississippi, but it isn't very compelling or convincing.
I say this as a middle-class white bloke, but... what promised to be a timely exploration of the African-American experience from an urgent and valuable contemporary voice is instead just a standard book adaptation: a mediocre melodrama that deals with big themes in a handsome but hackneyed way. Plus lots of Mary J. Blige staring out of windows.
Dee Rees's film spends more time in battle, fleshes out the Ronsel- Jamie relationship, and dwells on the minutiae of African-American life in the Deep South, but in a choppily uninvolving way, and at the expense of Laura's intriguing story of love, repression, sexual and racial guilt.
Critically, it never summons the book's sense of inexorable, fatalistic dread, nor knows what to do as it reaches its climax, which is first silly, then rushed and finally pointlessly and unconvincingly rose-tinted.
Mudbound has a few painterly images, good performances from Jason Mitchell and Carey Mulligan (who has one fantastic scene largely disconnected from the narrative and the worst pregnancy prop in decades) and an unvarnished understanding of the unglamorous, subservient pragmatism needed to survive as a black man in '40s Mississippi, but it isn't very compelling or convincing.
I say this as a middle-class white bloke, but... what promised to be a timely exploration of the African-American experience from an urgent and valuable contemporary voice is instead just a standard book adaptation: a mediocre melodrama that deals with big themes in a handsome but hackneyed way. Plus lots of Mary J. Blige staring out of windows.
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Pax tecum
Alan
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 4:08 AM, C wrote:
I click on the link then I get memes but I get no link to a Bill Maher monologue
On Jan 27, 2018 11:47 AM, "Alan Archibald" <alanarchibaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear R,
Maher is consistently superb.Even so, the following monologue clears Bill's already-high bar.Bill Maher's Stellar Monologue On Right-Wing Conspiracist-Feces-Flinging, Davos & Melania
Paz contigo,
Alan
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