Reading and Roaming
MOVIE TIME: A PSYCHIATRIST IN CRISIS A Private Life (Cary Theater) Having discovered the delights of our local movie theater, the Chief Penguin and I walked downtown again. This time to see Jodie Foster in A Private Life. A French film in French with subtitles and a few snatches of English, it’s a little bit of everything: murder mystery, love …
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REFLECTIONS Cuba in 2019 Seven years ago this week, the Chief Penguin and I were part of a small group educational and cultural trip to Cuba. We were in Havana the bulk of the time with a trip one day to the Vinales Valley. In the city, we experienced lunch at a private restaurant, one of the …
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RECENT VIEWING A Logger’s Life in the West: Train Dreams (Netflix) Train Dreams is a quiet serious film set in the Pacific Northwest in the early 20th century and based on a novella by Denis Johnson. Logging was at its peak, and trains were the fastest means of transportation across great distances. Robert Grainier is a logger, a dreamer, and …
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WATCHING: A Star Reflects Jay Kelly (Netflix) If you’re one of George Clooney’s many fans, then you will want to see this film. Jay Kelly is the story of one famous movie star’s reflecting on his past life, his successes, but mostly his shortcomings and omissions. Stunned by the death of a mentor, and then …
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