Articles by Raya Dimitrova

Imagine your mortgage company suggested you pay back your debt by buying nutritious lunch to a food-stamps recipient or letting a homeless person take a […]

“…with horses,…by the sea!”- these words pronounced in a state of trance and comfortable numbness by Holly Gollighty in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” indicate her desire […]

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” It sounds so idyllic, pastoral, and…delicious. Some may think that it is all about a small town called Somewhereville, USA, where a […]

Co-directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (who is also the choreographer), this big-screen adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical “West Side Story” explores the […]

For the majority of movie plots, it takes days or even years to present a simple event, idea, or theme. For the 2002’s indie film […]

If you cross Nabokov’s scandalous 1950’s masterpiece “Lolita” with Sophocles’ psychoanalytically driven play “Electra” and translate into modern terms, the hybrid will be 1967’s film […]

If the plot recipe for a typical 1920’s romantic comedy “Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl” were to be modified to Woody […]

If you want to see how disdain blends into love, sorrow blends into laughter, airiness blends into gravity and an “A” class cast blends into […]

“Life is stranger than fiction, because in fiction we have to stick to the possibilities,” famous British playwright George Bernard Shaw once said. Hardly did […]

To have an affair is a little bit immoral, but normal, but to have an affair with your ex-husband is….well, kind of complicated. Yet this […]

To the chagrin and dismay of the Razzies (the Academy Awards antithesis) critics, Scottish director Michael Caton-Jones proves his talent at adapting books to the […]