2+ hour, 1+ min ago  (237+ words) Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) "At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain." Picture a church. Pretty, peaceful. There are ghosts in the pews. Picture the candles…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1811+ words) Bright Wall/Dark Room Preston Sturges: Hail the Monkeying Hero No artist in movies has ever made me feel better about being an American than Preston Sturges, and since the shame of being American is the specific ache lengthening my…...