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This is one worth making your Netflix list.

This highest grossing French documentary of 2003 immerses you into the world of a modern rural one room schoolhouse in pastoral France. Shot in a style that shows rather than says, you’re a fly on the wall, observing the formation of that special relationship that […]

Working in Harvard Square makes it very easy to take a break in the afternoon and walk to Darwin’s. Most days I take a break around 3:30 with my friend Jill and we walk, sometimes by way of the Charles river, to this little sandwich-joint/gourmet-grocer/coffee-shop. We never know what is going to […]

What the Bleep Do We Know
My aunt Claudia recommended this film and I must admit it looks pretty interesting. Ever since I saw the PBS special on String Theory I have been interested in quantum physics. Check out this description from the web site:
“WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW?!” is a new type of […]

The more things change, the more things stay the same. There is plenty to get up tight about if you’ve got a child getting ready to go to college. (For me, it’s my little brother and sister) For one thing, why do tuition rates outpace inflation every year? (Since I graduated from college, tuition […]

It seems the country is getting more and more divided and I feel it on a personal level as my everyday discussions (when I can’t avoid politics) become more and more adversarial. But it seems to me that us everyday-folk should be more together and questioning the loud noises coming from the right and […]

Rainy afternoons are good times to see movies. Unfortunately, I chose to see Troy on this rainy afternoon. This was a story “inspired by” Homer’s Iliad. But all the dialogue was pure Hollywood. Many of the speeches could have been cut and pasted from past hollywood “epics”. Especially hackneyed were the requisite motivational speeches […]

This movie makes one feel insignificant and godlike at once. You watch the world from god’s vantage point and see your own small place in the wide world.