Dan Conley’s Writing Projects

We now reach the “prove me wrong” episodes of The Dekalog, the final three in the series that, at least my first two trips through the series, left me underwhelmed. There are aspects of all three closing episodes that are interesting and worth examining, but each one of these episodes

We have spent all of Dekalog 7 concerned about Anya, for good reason. A six year old girl on the run with a young woman who doesn’t have a clear idea what she is doing is a perilous situation. But as Dekalog 7 comes to its conclusion, it’s

We are all creatures of our times, but it’s important to remember that someone like Montaigne was as well. As scary as our current moment seems, how does it compare to France during religious wars of the 16th century? It is estimated that 2-4 million people died during the

I just finished rewatching the 1972 Eric Rohmer movie “Love In the Afternoon,” a movie that I don’t think left too strong an impression on me the first time through, not at least in comparison to Rohmer’s best work like “My Night at Maud’s” or “The Green

Of course the shell casings on the assassins bullets were not “trans ideology,” whatever the hell that is. From explanations I’ve seen on the web, the shooter’s cryptic messages seemed to be references to furries and video games, with a salute to an Italian song thrown in. And,

There are fewer chapters in episode 7 on the BluRay and I’m not sure why. The Criterion editors for, whatever reason, decided to have unusually long first and second chapters, so here we are in only the sixth segment and there are only about 10 minutes left in the