Year of the Month: Persia on “Blue Moon”
Once upon a time, I was one of Those Kids. The ones who wore their…
Year of the Month: Persia on ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
“You should have caught us in better times. We were purists then.” Has any playwright…
Year of the Month: Persia on THE SECRET OF NIMH
There are many movies that bear revisiting as your life circumstances change. A movie watched…
Not Quite Normal: Persia on The Cracked Brilliance of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Was there, will there ever be, a man better at going from quiet neurosis to…
Year of the Month: Persia on JAMAICA INN
“Respectable folk don’t go to Jamaica anymore. That’s all I know. In the old days…
Year of the Month: Persia on Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa taught me about texture. I’d watched plenty of black-and-white movies before and…
My Masterpiece: Persia on Inglourious Basterds
1. All y’all will get me one hundred Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of…
YEAR OF THE MONTH: Persia on On the Town
On the Town is a light confection of a musical movie, without much plot or…
Year of the Month: Persia on Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
You mustn’t be taken in by the moonlight and magnolias. There’s more to Savannah than…
All That You Can’t Leave Behind: Persia on The Glass Menagerie
“Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful…