Archive for March, 2011
Truffaut’s “The Soft Skin”
On a recent day off in Manhattan, I saw Truffaut’s The Soft Skin (1964) at Film Forum. I should admit here that if you put me in front of a film made in the 1960s, shot in black and white, and set in Paris, for a while it doesn’t matter what the characters do – I [...]
Four Contemporary Novels: or, Deep vs. Broad
I read a lot of books published before I was born. There is an endless supply of them, particularly when you read as slowly as I do. But sometimes, if only to shut people up, I take a gander at a more-or-less contemporary novel. Here are thoughts on four, whose shared characteristic is that I read [...]
