By guest columnist dyron_rises A month after it was released I finally saw The Shape of Water, the latest feature film from visionary director Guillermo Del Toro (Cronos, the Hellboy films, Pan Labyrinth, etc.), a unique blend of fantasy, sci-fi, romance and Cold War intrigue.
Tonight was pretty amazing for me. I went to Warwick’s in La Jolla, CA (10 miles north of San Diego) to see Andre Aciman (Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, and Harvard Square, and the editor of The Proust Project) in conversation with Beth Accomando (Reporter for KPBS…
It’s officially a tradition: for the past three years I managed to watch all the Oscar-nominated Documentary Shorts. Mostly because, hey, short. (Come on, you can dominate a whole category in three hours!) But they’re never boring. Depressing as hell sometimes, but never boring. It’s not a comfortable three hours, but it’s always interesting. Click…