The Guest Cat
An affecting novel with a simple form and story: a tale told in the first person of a man and his wife who come to love a cat, only to lose it.
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Rodger Donaldson
Lou Reed: The Life
Lou Reed: The Life, by Mick Wall, is a book I found by turns frustrating and interesting.
About the first quarter of the book is a furious hagiography; furious because the author appears
The Wait/L'Attente/L'atessa
This film is, simply, the most enjoyable art film I have seen in years, and one of the finest I have ever seen. The performance of the principal three actors, especially Binoche and
Lolo
There are a number of things that are unfamiliar to me in this film. For one, I am not in the habit of thinking of Julie Delpy in comedy roles (which probably says
April and the Extraordinary World/Avril et le Monde truqué
The movie opens by explaining the alternative world in which it is set: a world which differs in two key ways from the one we know; the great scientists of the 19th century