Pilgrimage
We had traveled from Australia to visit the ancient cathedral town of Canterbury in southeast England that has welcomed thousands of pilgrims since the Middle Ages. We were on a pilgrimage—not a spiritual one but a cinematic one. We were there to pay homage to the film A Canterbury Tale made during World War 2 […]
Another Agee on Film
James Rufus Agee (1909-1955), was the posthumous winner of the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1958 for his autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family. He is our family’s most distinguished member and comes from the Tennessee side of the family. After reading A Death in the Family, I decided to read his collection of film […]