Colin Moynihan on the late Alexander Cockburn—
"His attachment to left-wing journalism— and controversy—
was forged very early on. His father, Claud Cockburn, while
covering the Spanish Civil War for The Daily Worker , joined
the Republican forces fighting the rebellion of Francisco
Franco. (Claud Cockburn, under a pseudonym, also wrote
novels, including Beat the Devil , which was made into a
film with Humphrey Bogart and which his son used as the
title of his column in The Nation .)"
A video linked to in this evening's earlier post suggests
an antidote to the film oeuvre of Guillermo del Toro—
in particular, to Pan's Labyrinth.
