Category Archives: Culture

@The Movies with PopPop: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Daniel (@MKNN)

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a 2014 film directed by Iranian-American Ana Lily Amirpour. The film, in black and white, and “Persian” (Farsi?), is a — ready for this — vampire, feminist, spaghetti-western influenced romance, that though … Continue reading →

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@The Movies with PopPop: Dear White People

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Daniel (@MKNN)

Dear White People is quite an interesting movie if not a great one. It’s essentially an exploration of race relations at a fictionalized elite Ivy League school — a composite I think of Ivy and near-Ivy — with its 2-3% African American … Continue reading →

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@The Movies with PopPop: Salt of the Earth

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Daniel (@MKNN)

Salt of the Earth is a remarkable documentary of the life and work of Sebastião Salgado, the Brazilian phtotodocumentarian. The film was written and directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Sebastião’s son, and was an Academy Award nominee this … Continue reading →

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@The Movies with PopPop: Blue Jasmine

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Daniel (@MKNN)

While Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen‘s latest film, has some funny, and even more ironic lines, it is not a comedy! It is a first rate film, that in a very Woody Allen way seriously engages issues of class and privilege, … Continue reading →

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@The Movies with PopPop: Ida

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Daniel (@MKNN)

Ida is a wonderful 2013 film, in Polish and in black and white, by the Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski. It’s a story set in the ’60s of a young novice about to take her vows. Before she does, the Mother Superior insists … Continue reading →

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@The Movies with PopPop: Mother of George

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Daniel (@MKNN)

Mother of George is a 2013 Nigerian-American film. It is filmed in and focuses on Brooklyn’s Nigerian-American community, an immigrant community large enough to retain a cultural enclave that can be all inclusive to its members, enabling them to live … Continue reading →

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@The Movies with PopPop: Twenty Feet From Stardom

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Daniel (@MKNN)

Twenty Feet From Stardom is the Oscar-winning 2013 documentary about some of the great (mainly black) back-up singers of the last half of the 20th century and their occasional pursuits of solo careers. Merry Clayton, Darlene Hill, Claudia Lennear and … Continue reading →

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@The Movies with PopPop: Mr. Turner

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Daniel (@MKNN)

We saw Mr. Turner — and it far exceeded our expectations! It’s a biopic focusing on a couple of decades of the life of JMW Turner, the British landscapist who reached his pinnacle in the late 1800’s, the focus of the … Continue reading →

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@The Movies with PopPop: The Past

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Daniel (@MKNN)

The Past is an excellent 2013 French-Iranian film written and directed by Asghar Farhadi (the auteur also of 2011’s A Separation). An Iranian, Ahmad, married to a French woman, Marie, from whom he’s been separated for 4 years, returns to … Continue reading →

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@The Movies with PopPop: Mud

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Daniel (@MKNN)

Mud is a film that I think should have gotten more attention than it did.  It’s essentially a fable located on the Arkansas River.  Two 14 year olds have discovered a boat in a tree — deposited on an island … Continue reading →

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