In which NC Weil reviews books and films, and considers this amazing world.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Apocalypse Now - All the Versions
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A brief intro: this film uses a story much like Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to examine what happens to people when they move beyond t...
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy
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This 2025 novel is vividly told through the voices of its characters. The Salt family, Dominic (a widower) and his 3 children, son Raff (eig...
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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I took my time reading the essays in this 2013 book by enrolled member of Citizen Potawatomi Nation, PhD botanist, Distinguished Teaching Pr...
Monday, December 15, 2025
LaRose, a novel by Louise Erdrich
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This 2016 novel is a masterful landscape of the human heart, shattered by grief, rage, and jealousy, healed by generations of LaRoses. In br...
Saturday, November 8, 2025
David Ansen at 48th Denver Film Fest
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Coffee and Conversation with David Ansen at the 48th Denver Film Fest ( Full disclosure – David Ansen is mi esposo’s cousin ) Longtime film...
Saturday, September 6, 2025
"Listers" - a documentary by Owen and Quentin Reiser
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Owen and Quentin Reiser, 20-something brothers, don't know much about birds - they can identify a few distinctive species, and beyond th...
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Match in a Haystack, a documentary by Joe Hill
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This 2025 documentary serves as a companion-piece to Porcelain War , the 2024 documentary by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev about art in...
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