2021-09-06 15:54
sad to report that Wikipedia is reporting that the great Jean-Paul Belmondo has passed. I adored him since I first saw him in Two Women in 1961 and never got tired of looking and watching hi… Read More
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2021-09-05 16:28
Rough, raw and harsh New York City serial killer movie that is based on a serious novel by Susanna Moore who also collaborated on the screenplay with the director Jane Campion. The film was… Read More
2021-09-04 20:34
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Short series about a newly appointed chair of an English dept. at a university who happens to be a woman and an Asian. This is the set up we are presented with and it’s acted by the wo… Read More
2021-08-23 20:43
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2021-08-21 15:25
Another wild and woolly Korean ride through hell. Influenced by American cop and thriller television series that I never watch, and the only reason I jumped on this was because it was Korean… Read More
2021-08-20 03:34
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2021-08-16 14:12
Otoliths has posted 24 of my works on paper. You can view them all at this link. https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2021/08/ira-joel-haber.html Read More
2021-08-15 03:53
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2021-07-15 17:42
I love this long documentary on L.A and it’s history with the movies and Hollywood. It’s long for sure over 3 hours and I watched it in two evenings. This is the beautiful achiev… Read More
2021-07-07 15:11
A compelling if somewhat familiar 10 hour urban thriller that focuses on the death of a young black boy. He’s killed by accident while riding his bike in a rough hewed park on th… Read More
2021-07-04 16:12
Only 28 minutes in length, this series about a British pair of writers who are married to each other and are plopped down in L.A. where they are hired to transfer their hit t.v. series for A… Read More
2021-07-01 14:28
Cover features a work on paper that I did. https://c530.home.blog/issue-2/?fbclid=IwAR0XbFGRiG6DwpnBujqIVfRrfyV_N4ZePaDRym2e3oHu0xx1JHqz1VhjBbE Read More
2021-06-30 16:01
2021-06-29 16:02
https://oddballmagazine.com/three-poems-by-john-johnson/?fbclid=IwAR1EyfdVAVRm89UeRYR1mlccvzpzvO7kZqP5RtXQ8SutAjvKp2iB-iGmR2w Read More
2021-06-27 18:54
2021-06-20 15:04
Libretto Magazine has just published one of my works on paper in their latest issue. You can download the magazine at this link.https://librettong.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Issue… Read More
2021-06-20 04:20
2021-06-19 16:45
For a big part of its running time Michael Tolkin’s “The Rapture” which he wrote and directed is a compelling and fierce look at a young woman’s double face life of a… Read More
2021-06-15 03:28
More Loss. I met her when I was teaching at UCSD as visiting artist and she was the chairperson. She made me feel welcomed and was very supportive of my teaching and my art. I remember a fun… Read More
2021-06-14 14:42
2021-06-14 03:39
Saw him on Broadway in 2003 in the revival of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, when he played Big Daddy. Read More
2021-06-12 15:16
Southern Discomfort. Set in the rural deep south of east Texas in the late 80’s this vibrant thriller series concerns the misadventures of two childhood friends who are still clo… Read More
2021-06-07 12:48
Mixed with clay. 11" x 4 1/2" x 7 1/2" As usual with my work a bitch to photograph. Read More
2021-06-07 03:49
Saw him in "Slow Dance On The Killing Ground" on Broadway in 1965 when I was 18 and theatre tickets were like $4.00 Read More
2021-06-05 14:50
A silly sappy movie with great costumes and splashy color. This early 50’s floating bar of soap is about two World War II war time buddies played by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye who when… Read More
2021-06-04 16:12
The Mobile Library has just published their latest issue with 6 of my black and white landscapes from 1973. It's a PDF and here is the link. https://static1.squarespace.com/static… Read More
2021-06-02 03:44
The Pine Cone Review has just published it's second issue with 3 of my mixed drawings highlighting their poetry, flash fiction and flash creative non fiction secitions. Thank you.https… Read More
2021-05-30 14:42
A somewhat shocking and unusual film for the period. Spencer Tracy plays a newspaper reporter just back from Europe after seeing the early atrocities of the Nazi’s up close… Read More
2021-05-29 15:17
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2021-05-22 17:18
Another lovely artist has left us. I use to see him during the 70's. He probably made a visit to our loft. And yes that fat orange pig is still with us. Come on give us Mitchie or that moo c… Read More
2021-05-21 17:38
The City Is Back. Or at least it seemed so yesterday on the upper east side as I made the long trip from Brooklyn to the Met to see the Alice Neel Retrospective. It's a well deserved e… Read More
2021-05-18 19:09
2021-05-17 17:43
Another Amy Adams miss. Put it in a box with Hillbilly Elegy tie it up with ribbon and throw it in the deep blue sea. Taking the title of a great Fritz Lang Noir film and leading us on to th… Read More
2021-05-16 17:23
I suppose I can lukewarmly recommend this latest potboiler from the house of Ryan Murphy. It's watchable for sure, what with all those clothes, sexy scenes and little nuggets of gossip and d… Read More
2021-05-15 14:58
Dismal and depressing story about a young man who has a sex addition that is out of control and pulling him down. Set in a somewhat desolate New York City that made me immediately think of o… Read More
2021-05-14 16:05
2021-05-12 15:45
another artist passes. Knew Richard back in the early mid 70's Read More
2021-05-12 03:16
2021-05-07 03:29
I'm getting sick and tired of marvelous artists passing while that bloated pile of orange shit still walks this earth Read More
2021-05-06 14:05
Mary Astor was having a great time in 1941 especially given the fact that she survived one of the biggest scandals in the history of scandals. Her 1936 court battle to gain custody of her yo… Read More
2021-05-04 03:48
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2021-05-01 20:35
The Great Olympia Dukakis has passed Read More
2021-04-30 03:47
Sorry to learn of Bob's passing. I met him in the early 70's when we lived around the corner from each other in Chelsea. We hung out with mutual friends now and again, and we traded art, thi… Read More
2021-04-29 16:56
It doesn’t get any better than this and just in time for Mother’s Day. . One of the best takes on a “modern woman” I've seen. I suppose I should say modern women, but… Read More
2021-04-27 19:46
Terrible News. Read More
2021-04-27 16:08
Just got the latest issue of Albatross in the mail with an etching of mine on the cover Read More
2021-04-21 02:33
2021-04-20 03:34
"Fritz and Grits" Read More
2021-04-19 14:41
2021-04-18 17:16
Another good strong film that I caught the other day on the Moma virtual streaming site. A gift to members for sure. It's an old fashioned movie about trials, tribulations and overcoming the… Read More
2021-04-16 16:18
The fine British actress and a favorite of mine Helen McCrory has passed at the heartbreaking age of 52. She was memorable in Peaky Blinders Read More
2021-04-16 16:15
One of the great benefits of having an artist membership at Moma is having access to their streaming movies program and I have been taking advantage of this. I usually prefer seeing movies (… Read More
2021-04-13 19:11
Finished reading the new Woody Allen autobio "Apropos Of Nothing. I came away from it with the same opinions I've always felt about him, and have never been convinced that he molested… Read More
2021-04-13 18:53
Definitely not for the faint of heart. This is an 8 part series now on Netflix that is based on the true story of a human monster Charles Sobhraj who for years robbed and murdered youn… Read More
2021-04-13 18:42
Reading the New York Times today I saw that there was a season 11 coming of "Shameless". I watched all 10 years of the series on Netflix and thought 10 was the end of the series. I lov… Read More
2021-04-13 04:11
https://oddballmagazine.com/oddball-stories-with-iva-cvjeticanin/?fbclid=IwAR2fjUGDe24ehgGd0YSmnJ7RHUZhjDMLaVuAqd0HaSIQQ_m5nqYctyg9Frw Read More
2021-04-09 03:58
I will be very surprised indeed if Carey Mulligan wins an Oscar for this disturbing thriller romantic revenge pop paint box colored movie. I just don't see it happening. Also its not very go… Read More
2021-04-08 15:37
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2021-03-25 17:53
Beliveau Review has just posted some of my art and photographs. They are on pages 50-54. You can view the issue at this link.https://2e8a8d6d-e97c-4235-92c8-7aa31bae0d77.filesusr.com/u… Read More
2021-03-24 03:00
A Foreign Affair 1948Billy Wilder’s acid take on post war Berlin. He actually went there to film many of the exterior scenes of the destruction of the once beautiful city, and its shoc… Read More
2021-03-24 02:55
2021-03-22 19:27
Now streaming on Netflix is this low key intimate film about a young British gay man who fled Vietnam as an infant with his family to live in England and now returns years later to ret… Read More
2021-03-17 17:12
One of my photos.https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-james-cole/?fbclid=IwAR0Ws0E5-sTxFNrFIqTWLK-fve9zhfj52gO3lZuLuLhmy2YvrGKx0HaVxsI Read More
2021-03-17 16:51
I went to the Moma yesterday for the first time in over a year. It was also over a year that I was in midtown and anyone who thinks we are on the road to normal should take a subway ri… Read More
2021-03-16 13:11
2021-03-11 18:23
It gives me no pleasure to take down this movie, but the movie gave me no pleasure so we're even. This might be Scorsese's worst film, and its really a stain on his filmography. Far fe… Read More
2021-03-09 21:13
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2021-02-23 20:22
this passing hurts.When I was in San Francisco on a visit in 82 I of course made my way to city lights bookstore and spent some time looking at books. Afterwards I went to a coffee shop near… Read More
2021-02-22 17:41
The other day, a facebook friend posted some things from the 50’s and asked if we were old enough to remember them. One of the items were View-Master Reels, and I posted that I still h… Read More
2021-02-21 17:28
What the hell was Lana thinking? 2 years after one of the biggest Hollywood scandals that involved her and her teenage daughter in the murder of her gangster lover Johnny Stompanato, Lana de… Read More
2021-02-21 16:54
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2021-02-10 15:28
2021-02-09 15:18
Mary is on the far left. Read More
2021-02-08 04:17
One of the world's greatest cinematographers. Read More
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