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Category Archives: Books
Happy New Year 2017: Duck and Cover
2016 has been a good year for films, but not so great otherwise. Too many people have died, famous and not so famous. The weird voodoo of the presidential election, which seemed to take place in an alternate Bizarro World … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film, Home Video, TV & Cable
Tagged 2016 presidential election, Casablanca, Cthulhu Trump, Peanuts, Seconds, The Great Gatsby, Three Stooges
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Movie Poster Art for Art’s Sake
_________________________________________________________ Some time ago I was looking for posters for a particular film when I chanced upon others that immediately got my attention. Some of these were for films I’d never heard of before. … Continue reading
From Kubrick to Murnau – Notes on Four Great Films
Film Forum, here in New York, is currently showing a series called “Return of the Double Feature,” which offers two features for the price of a single admission. This series runs through September 13th. Each pair of films is linked … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fiction, Film, Home Video, TV & Cable
Tagged Adolph Menjou, Bram Stoker, Double-features, Dracula, Elisah Cook Jr, F. W. Murnau, Film Forum, FLorence Stoker, George Macready, George O'Brien, Humphrey Cobb, Janet Gaynor, Jim Thompson, Kirk Douglas, Margaret Livingston, Max Schreck, Nosferatu, Paths of Glory, Shadow of the Vampire, Stanley Kubrick, Sterling Hayden, Sunrise, The Killing, Timothy Carey
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“Be curious. Stand up. Keep your eyes open. Don’t blink.” – Robert Frank
What a terrific year this has been so far for documentaries. I just saw another great one, Don’t Blink – Robert Frank, directed by Laura Israel. I wish I had time to write a more finished piece, but we’re leaving … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Film, photography
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Andrea Frank, Cocksucker Blues, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Julius Orlofsky, June Leaf, Mary Frank, Me and My Brother, Mick Jagger, Pablo Frank, Peter Orlofsky, photography, Pull My Daisy, Robert Frank, Rolling Stones, The Americans
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Varieties of Human Experience: Recent Documentaries
In the last ten to twenty years, in addition to informing us in a journalistic sense, the best documentaries have been artistic expressions in their own right. The ones I’ve seen lately have been outstanding, uplifting, deeply moving, and extremely … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Film, Home Video, Music, TV & Cable
Tagged A. M. Rosenthal, Alexander Sokurov, Anderson Cooper, Anthony Weiner, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker, Eva Hesse, Gloria Vanderbilt, Huma Abedin, Kitty Genovese, Kutiman, Liz Garbus, Mother and Son, New York Times, Nonhuman Rights Project, Princess Shaw, Russian Ark, Samantha Montgomery, Silk Road Ensemble, Steven Wise, the Louvre, William Genovese, Yo-Yo Ma
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“Tale of Tales” Pt. 2 – Supplemental Material
This may be a deeper dive than anyone who hasn’t already seen Tale of Tales will want to take, but here it is for those who do. First is more information about the work of Giambattista Basile, author of the film’s … Continue reading
“Tale of Tales” – Once Upon a Time…
Tale of Tales presents three dark and bloody fairy tales — truly fantastic and quite wonderful flights of the imagination — yet it feels very real. Directed by Matteo Garrone, this is a lucid dream of a movie, an elaborately … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fiction, Film, Home Video, Music
Tagged Alexandre Desplat, fairy tales, Giambattista Basile, John C. Reilly, Matteo Garrone, Peter Suschitzky, Salma Hayak, Toby Jones, Vincent Cassel
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What I Watched Last Year: Best TV 2015
_____________________________________________________________ The following shows were new to me last year. I should note that I have somehow not yet seen Jessica Jones (Netflix) or the second season of Fargo (FX), both of which I’m sure would be on this list. Better … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Home Video, TV & Cable
Tagged Amazon Prime, Comedy Central, DC Comics, FX, HBO, John Oliver, Larry Wilmer, Marvel Comics, Netflix, Philip K. Dick, Showtime, transgender parents
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What I Saw Last Year: Best Feature Films 2015
I’m not sure how, but I managed to see 300 feature films in 2015. That’s probably nothing to brag about, but I love movies, and since I’ve got time to see a lot, that’s what I do. I thought it … Continue reading
Happy New Year from Films etc.
I generally don’t do New Year resolutions, but if I did, one of them would be to not let procrastination prevent me from writing more posts. It’s time to get this thing out of the ditch and back on the … Continue reading
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