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SIMCHAS AND SORROWS — Genevieve Adams Interview

July 20, 2022 By Leave a Comment

SIMCHAS AND SORROWS — Genevieve Adams Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. I loved the first scenes of Genevieve Adams’ SIMCHAS AND SORROWS so much that I worried what followed would have a hard time living up to it. In it, the heroine, Agnes, during her Catholic schoolgirl days, questions a nun about Jesus’ own religious upbringing, and how best… Read More »

Tagged With: big personalities, casting, compassion, conversion, David Foster Wallace, Holocaust, Palestine, rom-com, salted quinoa straws, Yom Kippur sermon

SILENCE

January 6, 2017 By Leave a Comment

SILENCE

Academics are taught to write with a dispassionate yet highly detailed style for their scholarly treatises.  That is the approach that Martin Scorsese has taken with SILENCE, his philosophically dense and immaculately rendered film of Shusaku Endo’s book of the same name. The result is a maddening film more to be admired than enjoyed as… Read More »

Tagged With: 17th century, book to screen, Christian missionaries, conversion, Japan, Jesuits, martydom, prosecution

Nia Vardalos & John Corbett & MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Nia Vardalos & John Corbett & MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING

Unlike most interviews I do, this one took place several weeks after the film in question opened theatrically. The studio decided to capitalize on the momentum generated by the word-of-mouth on this sweet romantic comedy by sending its stars on a belated press tour. Vardalos, who also wrote the script from her one-woman show of the same… Read More »

Tagged With: comedy, conversion, Family, film, Greek immigrants, Greek Orthodox, John Corbett, MIchael Constantine, movie, MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, narrative, Nia Vardalos, religion, romance comedy, Windex

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