Michael Washburn, Author at Book and Film Globe

Thursday, May 6, 2021

Hemingway

CREATORS DOCUMENTARY FICTION FILM NON-FICTION TELEVISION Writers

Documentary Captures the Real ‘Hemingway’

April 27, 2021April 30, 2021 Michael Washburn 3 Comments A Farewell to Arms, A Moveable Feast, Edna O'Brien, Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bell Toll, Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Martha Gellhorn, Tobias Wolff

Ken Burns’s film avoids hagiography as it weighs a writer’s virtues and flaws

My Salinger Year

FILM NON-FICTION

We Finally Get To See ‘My Salinger Year’

April 7, 2021May 3, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments IFC Film Center, J.D. Salinger, Joanna Rakoff, Margaret Qualley, My Salinger Year, Philippe Falardeau, Sigourney Weaver

IFC’s reopening in New York City brings adaptation of Joanna Rakoff’s memoir to the world

Later

‘Later’ is Stephen King’s take on ‘The Sixth Sense’

April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments

Entertaining, derivative, and occasionally straining for relevance

Depardieu

L’Affaire Depardieu

March 25, 2021March 29, 2021 Michael Washburn 5 Comments Abel Ferrara, Caroline Barclay, Dominque Strauss-Kahn, Gerard Depardieu, Welcome To New York

French actress takes a stand for the accused star in the shadow of #MeToo

Jordan Peterson

NON-FICTION Politics

The Return of Jordan Peterson

March 9, 2021March 16, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments

The book they couldn’t cancel has arrived

Allen v. Farrow

DOCUMENTARY FILM

One-Sided HBO Documentary Convicts Woody Allen

February 23, 2021March 10, 2021 Michael Washburn 4 Comments Allen v. Farrow, Amy Ziering, Dylan Farrow, Harvey Weinstein, Kirby Dick, Manhattan, Mia Farrow, Roman Polanski, Ronan Farrow, Soon-Yi Previn, Woody Allen

Film about abuse charges doesn’t pretend to be impartial

Bookshop

FICTION NON-FICTION

The Little Bookshop That Could (Or Couldn’t)

February 9, 2021February 18, 2021 Michael Washburn 3 Comments Amazon, Capitol Hill Books, Cavalier House Books, City Lights Bookstore, Elizabeth's Bookshops, Gilbert Jeune, LivreMoi, Malvern Books, Octavia Books, Owl's Nest Books, Powell's, Red Kangaroo Books, The Strand, Under the Silver Tree

Loyal customers rush to help indie booksellers in the time of COVID-19, but the real existential menace looms

Karl Edward Wagner

CREATORS DOCUMENTARY FICTION FILM Writers

The Tragedy of Karl Edward Wagner

January 28, 2021February 2, 2021 Michael Washburn 8 Comments Dennis Etchison, Karl Edward Wagner, Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, Robert E. Howard, S.T. Joshi, The Last Wolf

Documentary explores the decline of a cult horror and fantasy writer

Murakami

CREATORS FICTION Writers

The Empathy of Haruki Murakami

January 19, 2021January 29, 2021 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Haruki Murakami, Ozamu Dazi, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima

Japan’s most famous writer looks at the COVID-19 crisis from the viewpoint of ordinary people

Strangers on a Train

‘Strangers on a Train’ Reconsidered

January 7, 2021January 12, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alfred Hitchcock, David Foster Wallace, Farley Granger, Patricia Highsmith, Raymond Chandler, Robert Walker, Strangers on a Train, Tracy Austin

Hitchcock’s strange tale of a rich D.C. psychopath

Sunset Boulevard

The Long Shadow of ‘Sunset Boulevard’

December 30, 2020January 4, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Andrew Lloyd Webber, Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson, Judi Dench, Judy, Norma Desmond, Renée Zellweger, Robert DeNiro, Skyfall, Sunset Boulevard, William Holden

In a world that fetishizes youth and beauty, the classic film continues to resonate

Amis

CREATORS FICTION Writers

‘Inside Story’, or is Martin Amis Just Hedging?

December 21, 2020December 24, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Christopher Hitchens, Evelyn Waugh, Inside Story, John Updike, Martin Amis, Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

Hiding your opinions of famous writers as “fiction” is a cop-out

John le Carré

FICTION FILM Remembrance Writers

John le Carré’s Spies Were the anti-James Bond

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments American Pie, Danielle McDonald, George Smiley, James Bond, John le Carré, No Time To Die, The Looking-Glass War, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

His novels transcended genre

D.B Cooper

DOCUMENTARY FILM

The Hijacker Next Door

December 3, 2020December 7, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments D.B. Cooper, John Dower, The Master of D.B. Cooper

New HBO documentary examines 50 years of the D.B. Cooper mystery

Ramsey Campbell

CREATORS Writers

Channelling the Unknowable

November 12, 2020November 16, 2020 Michael Washburn 5 Comments H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, The Searching Dead

An interview with Ramsey Campbell, the modern master of weird fiction

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