Michael Washburn, Author at Book and Film Globe

The Old-School Macho of ‘High Noon’

October 19, 2021October 19, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Clint Eastwood, Cry Macho, Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, High Noon

Back in the day when Westerns meant something

FICTION

Haruki Murakami Library Opens in Tokyo

October 1, 2021October 12, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Haruki Murakami, Japan, Kengo Kuma, Shiga Naoya, Yukio Mishima

A literary salve for a nation in troubled times

CREATORS Writers

The Last Laugh of S.J. Perelman

September 21, 2021September 27, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Adam Gopnik, Marx Brothers, Nathaniel West, S.J. Perelman, The Day of the Locust, The New Republic

An iconoclast whose only rule was to be funny joins the Library of America

CREATORS FICTION Writers

O. Henry Joins the Greats

August 9, 2021August 12, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments 101 Stories, Ambrose Bierce, David Foster Wallace, Library of America, Louis L'Amour, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Upton Sinclair, Zane Grey

The Library of America enshrines a satirical wit who portrayed desperate writers

CREATORS NON-FICTION Writers

Appreciating the Late Peter de Vries

July 14, 2021August 3, 2021 Michael Washburn 5 Comments Janwillem Van de Wetering, Joran Van der Sloot, Natalee Holloway, Peter de Vries, Portrait of a Monster

The literary legacy of the Dutch crime reporter and author who attackers shot in Amsterdam on July 6

FICTION

Eggers As Metaphor

July 12, 2021August 3, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Bjork, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Hugh Jackman, John Lennon, Rage, Stephen King, The Every, the Museum of Rain

‘The Museum of Rain’, a trim little parable about the tension between artists and fans

NON-FICTION

Sharon Stone Tells Some

May 25, 2021August 3, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments

Her new memoir is illuminating in places but vague in others

CREATORS FICTION Writers

The Enduring Appeal of Conan

May 19, 2021August 3, 2021 Michael Washburn 7 Comments Arnold Schwarzenegger, Conan the Barbarian, Dr. Seuss, J.K. Rowling, Norman Mailer, Renée Zellweger, Renegades and Rogues, Robert E. Howard, Stephen King, Todd Vick, Vincent D'Onofrio

The elusive Robert E. Howard’s lasting contribution to popular culture

CLASSICS FILM

‘Wake In Fright’ at 50

May 10, 2021August 3, 2021 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Australia, Donald Pleasence, Nicholas Roeg, Nick Cave, Ted Kotcheff, Wake In Fright, Walkabout

A lost classic of New Wave cinema and the bane of Outback tourism

CREATORS DOCUMENTARY FICTION FILM NON-FICTION TELEVISION Writers

Documentary Captures the Real ‘Hemingway’

April 27, 2021August 3, 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

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

FICTION

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

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

Entertaining, derivative, and occasionally straining for relevance

FILM Politics

L’Affaire Depardieu

March 25, 2021August 3, 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

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

DOCUMENTARY FILM

One-Sided HBO Documentary Convicts Woody Allen

February 23, 2021August 3, 2021 Michael Washburn 6 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

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