Film...
The DVD of the week is The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum from The Criterion Collection. This fine film by Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta is about a woman who chooses to end her little bout of celebacy one night at a party and unwittingly ends up with an anarchist! He escapes her apartment and suddenly - when the police break down her door - she is thrown into a whirlwind of accusations. From there we see the ensuing political and media blitz that overcomes her. The film, made in 1975, is pretty astute on how government and the overbearing media abuse their powers to villainies regular people.