The Fool Gets Hurt in Fellini’s “La Strada” (1954)

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The Romance of Self-Destruction in “Withnail and I” (1987)

It’s 1969, and as drug guru Danny tells us, “the greatest decade in the history of mankind is over.” There will, he says, be many refugees, and the film’s implication is that Withnail—who combines self-importance and lofty ambition with substance abuse and urban squalor—will not ...  Show more

The Ethics of Seeing in Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” (Part 2)

Photography is a technology of contradictions. It is at once mechanical and mysterious, even magical. It furnishes evidence of presence while being a token of absence. It can show us proof but can’t, without accompanying narration or context, make us understand. And perhaps most ...  Show more

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