Osburnt: Dispatches From a Life Seared by the Arts

  • Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

    Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

    David Lowery’s AIN’T THEM BODIES SAINTS is a strong silent type of movie, a Lone Star noir full of the unspoken feelings of decent people and the stoic acceptance of what men and women must do when faced with the consequences of their actions. There is more than a touch of nostalgia about it, of…

  • To the Wonder • Tree of Life

    To the Wonder • Tree of Life

    There was a time when the spiritual dimension of Terrence Malick’s films was palpable but not in a way that overwhelmed the experience of ordinary life. He portrayed the sort of beauty that any of us can experience in a vast landscape, whether of Midwestern wheat fields or the virgin forests of the New World,…