reviews
‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’: Film popularizes Thomas Piketty’s work
April 30, 2020The latest May Day movie release...playing at a sofa near you.
Read more‘Babylon Berlin’ and origin of German fascism; ‘Superstore’ in age of Amazon
April 27, 2020A very strong aspect of 'Babylon Berlin' is that it does not reduce German fascism to Hitler, but instead depicts the much broader currents of the society that support it, including the aforesaid banks and investors...
Read more‘Bad Banks’: Global misbehavior in the German financial system; and ‘Nancy Drew’
March 30, 2020Season One of Bad Banks depicted the mad speculation at Deutsche Invest prior to the 2008 subprime crisis as Jena Liekam, the young financial climber and her two colleagues managed to abscond with a couple of...
Read moreA revelatory performance of Erich Korngold’s opera ‘Der Ring des Polykrates’
December 23, 2019The 1914 one-act opera, composed when the precocious Korngold was but 17 years old, is in a full-blown, late German Romantic idiom.
Read moreThe new Belorussian film ‘Debut’: Crime and punishment and art therapy
December 6, 2019A well-made, touching documentary.
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