
A Noiseless Flash: John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima’, 1946
Like most homes in this part of Japan, the house consisted of a wooden frame and wooden walls supporting a heavy tile roof. Its front hall, packed with rolls of bedding and clothing, looked like a cool cave full of fat cushions. Opposite the house, to the right of the front door, there was a […]

“Everybody lies” – ‘The Rule of the Game’ by Jean Renoir, 1939
☛ The Rule of the Game by Jean Renoir, France, 1939 @ 1:30:00. IMDb. That’s also part of the times. Today everybody lies. Pharmaceutical fliers, governments, the radio, the movies, the newspapers. So why should’t simple people lie as well? • • • From the essay Alexander Sesonske wrote for The Criterion website in 2011: […]