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October in Autonomia

This month’s Autonomia features Greta Garbo, gays in film and a review of my stay at a small, downtown hotel inspired by capitalism, specifically the industrialist. A new series of reports about this summer’s assassination news is also in the making.

October’s Points in Pittsburgh showcases a new hotel which pays homage to capitalism and the men who made the city of bridges, iron and steel. I’m writing a review of The Painted Veil, an early cinematic adaptation of M. Somerset Maugham’s novel about infectious disease in China, for next week’s Wednesday with Greta Garbo. Miss Garbo gets a nod in the documentary The Celluloid Closet, the seminal film version of Vito Russo’s scholarly work about the history of gays in movies. Autonomia will soon post the first report of a new series—the most complete press reporting yet—on the historic assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie.

September on Autonomia features twin anniversary reviews of movies about government control. The first is a state s…