The following is a continuation from part 1 of a dialogue between poets John Wall Barger and Vasiliki Katsarou on Alice Rohrwacher's Lazzaro Felice. JWB: What a fabulous passage by Rohrwacher. The “signs of many different eras” certainly sounds like an evocation of the contrasting rustic and urban settings of Lazzaro Felice. And yes, Teorama!… Continue reading Lazzaro Felice: an examination through dialogue, part 2
The following is a dialogue of two poets on Alice Rohrwacher's 2018 film Lazzaro Felice (English title: Happy as Lazzaro). Part 2 is here. John Wall Barger’s poems appear in American Poetry Review, Rattle, The Awl, The Cincinnati Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. His poem, “Smog Mother,” was co-winner… Continue reading Lazzaro Felice: an examination through dialogue, part 1
Terry Zwigoff’s cult film Ghost World concerns adolescent angst, outsiders, and suburban malaise. On paper, it sounds like one more obvious cookie-cutter melodramedy on burb life. But Ghost World offers a special magic to the formula: it poses irony and hypocrisy as the starting fabric of its shallow capitalist world, not as a mere novelty… Continue reading Ghost World: surviving the world of fake
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