Uncivil Society
BY STEVE ERICKSON | “I wish Ariel Sharon had wiped you all out.” That sentence, initially delivered in anger by a Lebanese Christian man, Tony (Adel Karam), to a Palestinian refugee, Yasser (Kamel El Basha, who is also a director and playwright), gets repeated at least two dozen times in Ziad Doueiri’s film “The Insult.” The hatred […]
Marriage Futility
BY STEVE ERICKSON | America generally doesn’t reward female artists for misanthropy. That makes the success of Gillian Flynn’s novel “Gone Girl,” now adapted by the author into a script directed by David Fincher, all the more surprising. But as popular as the novel is, it’s also proven quite divisive. While Flynn describes herself as […]
