Free market capitalism, secular soup kitchens, and the sensitive heartstrings of the middle and upper classes compelled sharing because they could; technological innovations made possible by innovators’ greed for a bigger paycheck made food cheaper to grow, raise, harvest, and transport, which reduced...
Director Gillo Pontecorvo was so impressed by Morricone’s score to The Battle of Algiers that he hailed it as “a secular hymn to freedom.” Morricone was suddenly a magnet, scoring 21 movies in 1969 alone, and, he tells Tornatore, “Envy turned into slander.” Zimmer observes that “...
The stark line “I hated death, but I hated life, too,” represents a dramatic shift in language, in response to a desperate reality—the boy and the poet caught in the vise of history and perpetual flight. And yet, as frequently happens in Abu Toha’s work, that harsh world also ha...