“An Englishman spoke to him from across the aisle but he found something antipathetic in the English lately. England was like a rich man after a disastrous orgy who makes up to the household by chatting with them individually, when it is obvious to them he is only trying to get back his self respectContinue reading “RKS Literature: England and its Orgies (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
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The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Armchair on the Pavement”: No Grapes of Wrath Here
A retired Greek army general is coping with dementia. He has trained battalions in warfare but today can’t remember if he has taken his pills. But he does remember a song on the radio that he and Olga his wife danced to at their wedding. And it brings him joy this song so much heContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Armchair on the Pavement”: No Grapes of Wrath Here”
RKS Literature: Switzerland Land of The Sick and Persona Non-Grata (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“…throughout this hotel there were many chambers wherein rich ruins, fugitives from justice, claimants to the thrones of mediatized principalities, lived on the derivatives of opium or barbital listening eternally as to the inescapable radio, the coarse melodies of old sins. This corner of Europe does not so much draw people as accept them withoutContinue reading “RKS Literature: Switzerland Land of The Sick and Persona Non-Grata (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
RKS 2024 Film: “Consumed”: Horror with a Dual Personality
The Butcher Brothers (Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores) add to their horror output with “Consumed” a dual personality horror film. What or who is the real beast here? Beth (Courtney Halverson) and her husband Jay (Mark Famiglietti) are hiking and camping the wilds of New Jersey ostensibly to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Beth beingContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Consumed”: Horror with a Dual Personality”
The 4th International Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Nothing Holier Than a Dolphin”
Several fishermen, a retired sea captain, a woman and a waitress are in a Greek seaside taverna in the evening. The fishing has not been going well with a mistral making the sea too rough to fish in. A man tells a mythical tale about a fishing village in the Mediterranean experiencing rough winds preventingContinue reading “The 4th International Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Nothing Holier Than a Dolphin””
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Taxi”: Three Times Dead and Ready to be Murdered!
It is the early 1990’s in Cyprus and Soulla drives a taxi. In this short she picks up three passengers on three separate trips and she is eager to tell them the taxi was her late husband’s. He died in a barbeque related accident. Every time she relates how his death occurred it is relatedContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Taxi”: Three Times Dead and Ready to be Murdered!”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Meetings”: The Madness of Conspiracy Theories?
We often hear about strange conspiracy theories the most prominent these days being the Trumpian fantasy of a rigged election that stole his presidency. Is a conspiracy theory madness or is it those that propound them that are mad? In “Meetings” we meet the over-the-top intense Aggelos (Elias Valasis) on the telephone trying to convinceContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Meetings”: The Madness of Conspiracy Theories?”
RKS Literature: The Timid Europeans at the Munich Psychiatric Conference (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“At first there would be an American cast to the congress, almost Rotarian in its forms and ceremonies, then the closer European vitality would fight through, and finally the Americans would play their trump cards, the announcement of colossal gifts and endowments, of great new plants and training schools and in the presence of theContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Timid Europeans at the Munich Psychiatric Conference (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Dynamo”: Not Trapped at The Border
Yianni Kioussis wrestles under the name “Asperger Dynamo”. He is not wrestling before crowds at large venues, at least not now but that he is wrestling at all is quite an achievement. Epileptic seizures started at 6 months and by 1 there were 150-200 seizures a day. His first doctor said he would most likelyContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Dynamo”: Not Trapped at The Border”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Fantasia”: A Movie That Sings with Its Heart and Soul
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada) screens in 11 Canadian cities 1-31October2024. “Fantasia” will be one of the films presented and it sings to you with its heart and soul. Like much of the traditional Greek music that is full of suffering and personal agony heard in the film many of theContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Fantasia”: A Movie That Sings with Its Heart and Soul”
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