Ze foreign films, and ze people who zee them

So, Judy talked me into going to ALL FIVE foreign films that are up for an Oscar this year and I was happy to go. They were shown through a 3-day package deal at the National Geographic building — $45, including a reception each day. What a wonderful slog that was — we started on…

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Defrosted from the archives

For all y’all who’ve spent a lot of this week snowed in … Washington was spared (this time) but for some reason I was having vague memories about this piece, from February 2003, and I wanted to go back and make sure I wasn’t imagining that I actually wrote it. I remember it was inspired…

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