Cliff Froehlich
A recovering journalist—the former executive editor of the St. Louis alt-weekly The Riverfront Times and arts-and-entertainment editor of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch—Cliff Froehlich is the retired executive director of the nonprofit Cinema St. Louis.
By Cliff Froehlich
Flight and Film
Flight, with its intoxicating blend of graceful beauty and adrenalizing daredevilry, was custom-made for cinema, which exults in movement—they are called motion pictures—and delights in vicariously transporting audiences to seemingly unreachable places.
Animal House
Shuffling through the vaccination and microchip records, reading the myriad names, I sometimes smile with nostalgic fondness, but more often my eyes mist as I am reminded of the multitudes we have loved but lost.
Days of Wrath
The Joads and their fellow Oakies may be today's Orange County conservatives, but the labor struggles and political tensions made real in the pages of Steinbeck's most famous book resonate 75 years later, and counting.