Dive into the archives.
- Comedies for America!
(r->l, Mark Waters, Carrie Fisher, Garry Marshall, Adrianna Costa)
This week’s episode of On the Lot was almost watchable. I fretted when Adrianna revealed that we’d be watching “six original comedies for America,” especially upon learning that such cinematic nonstarters as Shalani, David, and Hilary would be among the filmmakers presenting delicious yuks for us.
The [...]
- About Face
I promise you I won’t make a regular issue of this, but it’s a pop-culture phenomenon that’s become too big for me not to address.
And that’s this: Paris Hilton’s kinda cute.
There. I said it. Now, let’s quickly acknowledge that I despise everything that her public persona has come to signify over the past few years, [...]
- Breaking Kayfabe
I don’t follow professional wrestling for a multitude of reasons - I don’t have enough time to get into its complex and arcane narratives, I don’t particularly enjoy the increasingly graphic nature of its violence, and it’s simply never been something that’s piqued my interest (unlike the other, lesser-heralded predetermined-results ’sports entertainment,’ monster-truck racing, which [...]
- The Only Thing Less Watchable Than the Films Are the Judges
At some point in the Babylon that was Hollywood in the 1970s, Carrie Fisher got hopped up on angel dust and repeatedly slammed her head against a brick wall until a chunk of her skull broke itself off and jammed itself into whatever part of the brain manages one’s artistic sensibility. It’s the only explanation [...]
- Adventure in Broad Channel…
Yesterday I went to Broad Channel with my friend Becca to scout it out as a place to shoot a music video I’m planning for my friend Eric. It was a delightful day.
- Goodbye, My Friend
Suffice it to say I’m devastated this evening to learn about the recent passing of Larry James, the former manager of Dartmouth’s Food Court. Larry, an unmistakable campus icon and one of the all-around nicest, friendliest, and most comforting members of my Dartmouth community, passed away from cancer at the age of 62 on Tuesday. [...]
- A Year
Recently, I’ve been finding myself wincing a lot.
Of all the emotional reactions to despair or frustration one can perform, the ‘wince’ is fairly minor – not quite the smirk of disapproval, but not remotely comparable to the cry, the shout, the profane curse, or a personal favorite, the nervous breakdown.
Nope. Year One of My Five [...]
- Sembene - A Great African, Filmmaker
A great master has died.
Author, filmmaker, and political thinker Sembene Ousmane has died at 84, and our cinema has suffered a loss. A pioneer in both African film production and distribution (indeed, he often scheduled screenings of his films in villages, having the equipment to show his politically and socially charged material trucked out to [...]
- Hey guys…
In honor of the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the day I started this blog (technically tomorrow), I changed up my color scheme.
Tell me what you think! A little easier on the eyes? Too easy on the eyes?
- Man of the West (1958)
A favourite of Jean-Luc Godard and Derek Malcolm, Anthony Mann’s Man of the West has almost been relegated to also-ran status among many who would seek to create a list of canonical westerns. As a Gary Cooper vehicle, it doesn’t have the iconicity of High Noon, and as an Anthony Mann picture, it lacks Mann’s [...]
