Waltz With Bashir: Memory vs. History

I just finished watching Waltz With Bashir.  Better late than never.  I really liked it.  Waltz With Bashir is the 2008 film by Ari Folman documenting an episode in the 1982 Lebanon War.  It is autobiographical in that the storyline follows Folman as he tries to reconstruct his lost memories of involvement in that incident.  The event in question was [...]

Berlin Wall Comes Down: 20 Years On

It is not often that we can celebrate the destruction of something.  Especially if that thing is covered with some great graffiti.  But this week we celebrate the destruction of the Berlin wall 20 years ago.  Time flies doesn’t it?  It has been great to see freedom sweep over that part of the world.  But [...]