Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers,
In a time when much of American Independent Cinema falls on a spectrum with self-satisfied irony on one end and unabashed sentimentality on the other, David Gordon Green defies type. Orienting from the mantra “If I ever make anything clever, you can shoot me,” Green rose to prominence with emotio