Luke Z. Fenchel

Features

The Futility of Truth or Reconciliation in Waltz with Bashir

By Luke Z. Fenchel

Although it examines culpability and responsibility in service of truth and reconciliation, this film fails to address the structures of power, and arguably perpetuates the very atrocities that it sets out to condemn. [26 June 2009]

Reviews

Black Postcards by Dean Wareham

By Luke Z. Fenchel

As a participant in the rock 'n' roll scene in the late ‘80s and throughout the ‘90s, Wareham proves to be an invaluable guide and an incisive observer. [21 August 2009]

Che’s Afterlife by Michael Casey

By Luke Z. Fenchel

Casey engages in an intellectual history of the Che brand, approaching his subject with an historian’s sense of detail, a historiographer’s sense of a cultural import, and a journalist’s mix of skepticism. [20 August 2009]

A Jihad for Love

By Luke Z. Fenchel

This addresses an irreducible truth that all major religions struggle with: the reconciliation of scripture and social progress. [22 May 2009]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By Luke Z. Fenchel

With a long running time, a chronology that spans almost a century of American history, and a plot that is anticlimactic at best and tedious at worst, this is a curious case, indeed. [15 May 2009]

Momma’s Man

By Luke Z. Fenchel

By turns hysterically funny, profoundly depressing, and ultimately touching, a poignant portrait of arrested development in contemporary America. [14 May 2009]

Wendy and Lucy

By Luke Z. Fenchel

A moving portrait of a woman and her canine companion as well as a powerful comment on contemporary American poverty. [8 May 2009]