Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s short novel of daily life in a Siberian work camp, filmed in straightforward fashion by Casper Wrede. The details register with harrowing force, through Wrede can’t resist the ...
One day in February of 1945, Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was arrested by the Soviet Committee for State Security: the KGB. In a letter to a friend, he’d made references to “The Boss” and “The ...
One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous ...