Andy Nicastro

It is worth saying something about the condition of the writer who finds himself being translated.  Being translated is not work for eithe...

Have you sometimes thought, dear sweet friend, how many tears the horrible word “happiness” is responsible for?  If that word didn’t exist w...

I believe that one of the few things that stands between us and an accelerated descent into darkness is the set of values inherited from the...

Watched Local Hero this weekend.  So good.  I saw it when it first came out in 1983 but haven’t seen it again in many, many years.  It hol...

If you were to compile a list of the coolest movie stars who ever lived, there is little doubt in my mind that Jean Gabin would be in the t...

Respectable people…What bastards!       - Emile Zola, The Belly of Paris (1873)

Indignation and goodwill are not enough to make the world better.  Clarity is needed, as well as charity, however difficult this may be to ...

The Americans and the English are bound together at present by the ties of war, and by that sort of cousinly love which expresses itself ...

The problem with opinions is that one is stuck with them.       - Susan Sontag, “The Conscience of Words” (2001)