Greig Roselli — Teacher, Writer, Philosophy Sprinkles Maker

In this post, I talk about movies that have a loving relationship to books and to reading. Pulp Fiction's title is certainly a lov...

A review of the Frick Collection's bronze statuettes collected by Janine and J. Tomilson Hill. Attributed to Adriaen de Vries, Bacchu...

Jo (Rita Tushingham) in A Taste of Honey (1961) I've always been a sucker for kitchen sink drama. Maybe I was first smitten by Stre...

I Saw the Devil (2010) Directed by  Jee-woon Kim Starring Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi and  Gook-hwan Jeon     It was an  incongruous p...

Creators come in different shapes, colors, and sizes! If you think you may be a writer, an illustrator, a photographer, a graphic design...

William Carlos William's very short poem "This Is Just To Say" frustrated me on my first read. Is this a poem? These few words...

image credit: © Greig Roselli   "There could be no greater misunderstanding of judgments of taste than to declare them simply un...

Never Let Me Go     K azuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go has recently been released as a film, due out in theaters today. I am a...

In this post, I review the new Angelina Jolie movie Salt. image credit: NYT Despite insane physical hijinks, Salt (2010) is a pretty da...

In this blog post, I take apart one scene from the Stephen Daldry film Billy Elliot. Stones of Erasmus TpT Store       Stephen Dal...

In this post, I write a comparison essay outlining differences in "cave allegory" imagery in Plato's Republic and Ralph Elli...

To commemorate Luis Buñuel 's death in 1983, here is an evocative piece he wrote about film and the subconscious: In the hands of a fr...

To commemorate Easter Sunday, I am posting a Vonnegut interview. On September 13, 2005,  Jon Stewart interviewed Kurt Vonnegut on The Daily...

Some Like It Hot   —  Directed by Billy Wilder  —  Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Joe E. Brown      Some Like It ...

Pairing image with text in a narrative is contradictory: the flowing voice of the narrator with the frozen, almost totemic, images, is a s...

In The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist by Emile Habiby, a Palestinian illegally gains re-entry into Israel after the deportation ...

In a civilization preoccupied with images, information, speed and efficiency, a wash of “words, words, words” there is still an origin of kn...

Leo Spitzer, in an interesting rejoinder to a colleague’s claim that Milton is an inferior poet to Shakespeare uses “Methought I saw my la...

When I read the required reading list for the Virginia Woolf Seminar I took at Southeastern Louisiana University, I was happy to see M...