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Cavafy and Kassaby: Two Poseidonians Remembering Ithakas

Hello, world. My name is Pensée Atef Mohran. I am an English major and this is a final paper I  wrote for the Comparative Literature class of Spring 2019 The film is now screening in international festivals, but here is the TRAILER:*That's What Happened- Official Trailer: https://vimeo.com/321357063  till it's available for the public.

A Ghost Story (2017): A Tale about Letting Go

      Written and directed by David Lowery, A Ghost Story came out in 2017 starring Academy Award-Winning actor, Casey Affleck, and Rooney Mara. This film was a step away from the traditional moving-picture horror films the audience would expect from the title. Because usually, a ghost tale implies that one is before something gothic and horrifying; a love story, maybe, in the same sense that David Foster Wallace meant when he said that every love story is, in essence, a ghost story. But the director here puts it in more simplistic terms of vision. After all, his main character is a ghost in a Halloween-costume bed-sheet. By that he aims at clarifying that the idea of haunted places, the passage of time, and this very personal, specific image of a ghost made-at-home carry homage to the 7-year-old Lowery whose first film ever was a home-made movie starring his brother as the ghost in a bed-sheet haunting their house. So, in a sense, this film is immens...