1. The first two shots of the film are of these two contrasting bridges, setting up the contrast between Young and Uncle Charlie. 2...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 1943. When I first saw Shadow of A Doubt , about ten years ago, I was a little underwhelmed. It was slow w...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 1948. It is the fate of too many masterworks that they get shoehorned into the taxonomy of their creator...

Film Week at the Philharmonic. 2013. Some will bristle at the premise: why pay a pretty penny to see an old film with live music? It's...

Directed by Régis Roinsard. 2012. If Populaire were only a riff on Pygmalion it might be a little banal. If it were only an imitation of ...

Democracy is perhaps one of the most fetishized and least questioned aspects of modern political life. This is not so unusual insofar as a ...

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Christian humanism is liturgical. Its end is theosis , the deification of man. The Catholic school ought to have at its heart the worship of...

For my own personal edification, I'm doing a bit of writing on what I call Anglican Platonism. Ever since the Anglican Ordinariate was p...

It's one of the less explicable facts of life that people seem to find the writing of thank you notes a tedious task. The labor in fact...