Fleurs de Marie-Jacqueline

  Note:  I updated this post on 2-15-2024 to add the image and hopefully improve my statements about fallen human nature. Directed by Charl...

The Quiet American (1958) is a black and white film directed and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay.  It is ...

This is the second part of a two-part review of the novel and film Journal d'un curé de campagne ( Diary of a Country Priest ) by Georg...

Part II of the review of the book by Georges Bernanos and the film by Robert Bresson, Diary of a Country Priest , will not be posted this w...

This is the first part of a two-part review of the 1936 novel by Georges Bernanos, Journal d'un curé de campagne ( Diary of a Country P...

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1904-1991) is a 1951 novel that became the basis for two films: one in 1955 and the other in 19...

It is said that St. Francis de Sales (pictured just above) counseled that a good Catholic should have excellent manners.   I think it can b...