Tag: Diary
Feature: The Diary of an Emerging Writer Part 4
Tom Derrington continues his diary about the life of a playwright During the first two weeks in April, we took our three small kids to Portugal for a family ‘holiday’. Lovely… right? 16 April Arrived home. A broken, defeated, shell of a man. That was not a holiday. That was hell. Our one-year-old spent two…
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Feature: The Diary of an Emerging Writer Part 3
Tom Derrington’s latest diary on what a writer does besides writing Ernest Hemmingway’s quote – “The only kind of writing is rewriting” – makes me not want to do any more writing, ever. Annoyingly though, it does seem to be true. It’s one thing, happily tapping on a laptop, chuckling away to myself, for fun,…
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Diary of a Country Priest movie review (2023)
Robert Bresson does nothing in a superficial way to please his audiences. The rewards of his films unfold slowly from their stories, and pierce deeply. He is very serious about human nature and the indifference of the world. He is not a Catholic but an agnostic who values any consolation his characters can find, in…
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Empathy Machine: Diary of a Country Priest | Features
But what made the piece lodge in my mind and reorient my perception of the movie was two sentences: “The locals gossip that he’s a drunk, because of his diet, but we never see him drunk. Bresson often fills the frame with his face, passive, and the stare of his unfocused eyes.” Roger was a…
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