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☆ ‘Io Capitano,’ Italy’s Oscar Nominee, Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Richard Braude | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Of all the offerings this Oscar season, one stands out: “Io Capitano.” A nominee for best international feature film, the film is a visually stunning and often harrowing account of the journey from West Africa to Europe. At a time when Italy’s far right is in government, introducing draconian anti-migrant laws amid a flood of poisonous rhetoric, “Io Capitano” represents an important intervention by its director, Matteo Garrone. Wolof dominates the script, claiming a place for a language that, though present in Italian society, has been nearly absent from Italian cinema. Yet for all its achievements, the film doesn’t tell the whole story. “Io Capitano” owes its title to the final scenes of the film in which the Senegalese protagonist, Seydou, is strong-armed into helming a rusty fishing trawler that takes him and hundreds more from Libya to Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island.

Persons: ”, Matteo Garrone, Garrone, Walt Whitman’s, — “ Locations: West Africa, Europe, Senegal, Senegalese, Libya, Lampedusa

☆ An-My Lê Left Vietnam as a Child. She Returned as a Photographer.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Holland Cotter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The initial photographs of the Hamas-Israeli war arrived, as if out of nowhere, like a kick to the chest. I thought of the American poet Walt Whitman’s stuttering shocked reaction to America’s Civil War. “The dead, the dead, the dead,” he keened, “Our dead — South or North, ours all, all, all, all.”Another, later American poet and political activist, Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), might have been less surprised by the present catastrophe and the images it’s generating. “It is the history of the idea of war that is beneath our other histories,“ she coolly wrote in the late 1940s, early in the bitter long Cold War that followed World War II. And one of her specific points of reference is the American War in Vietnam, which she directly experienced.

Persons: Walt Whitman’s, “, Muriel Rukeyser Organizations: Hamas, Museum of Modern Locations: York, American, Vietnam

☆ Opinion | Forget Nouns. Verbs Are Where the Action Is.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( John Mcwhorter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The verb “see” is “doe,” uttered with a high pitch. To put the verb into past tense, you say it with a low pitch. To say that rather than mere glimpsing, you looked at something deliberately, you start on that low pitch and go even lower. And if you want to say the opposite, that you just looked something over quickly, you start high and then swoop low. Wait, wait!” This was perfectly ordinary speech, and it entailed four verbs and zero nouns or adjectives.

Persons: ”, Walt Whitman’s, Puedo, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, “, Daffy Organizations: Iau, Berlitz Locations: Fennoscandia, Thailand, Papua Province, Spanish

☆ Walt Whitman’s Watch Over the War Dead
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Kelly Franklin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected that “the real war will never get in the books.” He had tried, in “Drum-Taps” (1865), a collection of poems forged in harrowing personal experience. Whitman had gone to the front in December 1862, when his brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg. Outside a field hospital, Whitman found a heap of amputated limbs—enough, he recorded, to fill “a one-horse cart.” His weeks with the Union army changed his life. In January 1863 he moved to Washington and began volunteering in the military hospitals. A notebook he carried that year contains drafts of one of his finest poems, the Civil War elegy “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night.”

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