Sam Buckland

Sam Buckland writes fiction, and about film, literature, and politics. He currently is based in Los Angeles.

Love and Solitude in Exile: Isabel Allende’s “A Long Petal of the Sea”
Sam Buckland finds Isabel Allende’s “A Long Petal of the Sea” “intimate but never sentimental, traumatic but never aggressively so.”
Sam BucklandMar 12, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life” and the Banality of Good
Sam Buckland considers Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life” as a philosophical photo-negative of Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil.”
Sam BucklandDec 4, 2019
- Film
- Philosophy & Religion
What Do We Risk in Interstellar Exploration? On Claire Denis’s High Life
Sam Buckland reviews Claire Denis's recent interstellar film "High Life."
Sam BucklandJun 23, 2019
On Trauma and Grief in American Film
"American film is divorced from the lives that it photographs. The camera distorts their worries and concerns, it leaves their contours misshapen."
Sam BucklandFeb 26, 2019

Love and Solitude in Exile: Isabel Allende’s “A Long Petal of the Sea”