Friday / “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote At the end of 1959 Truman Capote (1924-1984) read in the New York Times the news of the murder of the four members of a family of farmers in a remote Kansas town, at the hands of a couple of guys who made off with ridiculous loot. It was about
Thursday / “Everything is illuminated” directed by Liev Schreiber [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahx4q58PBVE] A young Jewish American flies to the Ukraine in search of his grandfather's past. He has a photograph and the name of a village. He hires the Odessa Heritage Tours, made up of a gruff old man and his English-speaking grandson. The three, plus grandfather's
Wednesday / “The city of the dead: the tragedy of Ciudad Juárez” Marcos Fernández and Jean-Christophe Rampal In Ciudad Juárez, state of Chihuahua, Mexico, near the border with the United States, almost 400 women have been murdered since 1993, and still today more than five hundred are still missing. However, more than ten years