Month: December 2022

A visit to the iconic city sparks some thoughts What can be said of Paris that hasn’t been said before? It is one of those few cities, like London, or Rome, or Chicago — well maybe not that last one — that live in the world’s imagination, so much that even those who have never…

“In the Bleak Midwinter” in animation

Messi, Borges and the World Cup win Yes! Argentina won the World Cup after a nail-biting game that seemed it would never end, and Messi got his dreamed and well-deserved prize. Fantastic! I didn’t realize that Argentina had last won in 1986, because it got really close other times: it was two times vice-champion since…

From Argentina to Peru to Brazil, things are not very quiet Argentina may — hopefully! — win the World Cup this Sunday, but the situation in Messis’s home country is far from idyllic. The current vice-president, Cristina Kirchner, is facing arrest on corruption charges. I suppose it’s good that the old thief is finally facing…

Commenting on the recent Sight and Sound list Sight and Sound, the magazine of the British Film Institute, recently released their annual poll of “100 best films of all time”, as voted by a group of film critics, as they’ve been doing since 1952. For many years they used to put “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles,…

But the Covid menace is now replaced by inflation and an “energy crisis” After two years of pause, Christmas markets are back in town all over Germany. “Stille Nacht” and “O Tannenbaum” are heard once again out in the open, and people can buy nutcracker figurines and drink Glühwein. No masks are needed anywhere, except,…