2022-02-17 19:03
So I’ve seen the original Let It Be (1970) as much as the next Beatle fan, maybe once more than I probably wished, because in that case more is less. I never reached the desire to pars… Read More
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An ongoing discussion (tinctured with some actual experience) on the world of film exhibition, film studies, preservation and spectatorship.
2020-06-17 20:33
I've written about Chinatown before. It's seminal to my appreciation of what movies could do. I caught it years after it came out in a rep house on a double bill with, no kidding, Byrum's In… Read More
2019-08-13 16:37
So as a "movie" person it seemed de rigueur to see the new Tarantino joint, Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood.Funny title. It's a reference to Leone, of course. But also that fey ellipsis sugg… Read More
2018-10-30 03:00
Okay, is two times the charm?Darren Aronofsky's mother! (so capitalized) seems nice. A amiable and unassuming domestic family drama.Were it so. This Molotov cocktail, designed intentionally… Read More
2018-04-14 04:39
Here's a still from Losey's The Damned, a rather rare cold-war SF-y film to see, at least up to now, from 1962.I remember where I first saw this shot, published I think in John Baxter's 1970… Read More
2017-09-14 17:35
I finally caught up with Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman (2017) and found it much better than what I think most superhero movies tend to be. Full disclosure, I don’t see superhero movies… Read More
2017-06-09 20:16
We miss Hunter S. Thompson more than ever recently. His journalistic viewpoint aside, his character is as large and as imposing as any on the political landscape, although it's generally con… Read More
2017-05-16 20:24
I'm like you and I haven't been able to find anything worth watching on Netflix lately. All old shows and flashy fake sitcoms.Amazon Prime's selection, beyond the darts at a more meaningful… Read More
2016-11-30 20:31
N.B.: This one is a little inside.* * *I like podcasts -- they make my commute go by quicker and more productive. You should really try it (I know you won't listen). One of my favorite used… Read More
2016-02-24 05:22
It's the end of February and the Super Bowl is history. That means the fantasy football betting at work has been temporarily replaced by the Oscar pools.Should be easy to win th… Read More
2016-02-05 04:00
--> David Bowie's penultimate album, The Next Day (2013, presumably created before he knew he had the liver cancer that would take him away) is soaked with anger, a dread of violenc… Read More
2015-12-03 06:05
That’s Lawrence Kasdan, and he’s probably the true creator of the Star Wars phenomena for the last 35 years.That probably doesn’t sound right. Success has many fathers. Let… Read More
2015-11-12 16:31
Back in the old fogey days I worked in a video store, a step removed from the opening-night show-business excitement of a movie theatre, most of the films at least 6 months old and just more… Read More
2014-12-01 17:05
Two years after Paul Thomas Anderson forced the issue by releasing The Master in a limited (very limited) number of theatres in 70mm, Christopher Nolan has pushed the envelope by gently dema… Read More
2014-09-18 17:15
In other news, Quentin Tarantino, film nerd and savior of the New Beverly 7 years ago because he started paying the rent to keep it open, then actually bought the building when it was going… Read More
2014-07-15 05:59
Film history is revisionist and reactionary. Most people writing about the classics or about "the golden age" weren't even there - they have only the reviews and the evidence of the ca… Read More
2014-07-08 23:08
It's rumored, half the time Ridley Scott spent updating and mastering the most recent "last" Final Cut of Blade Runner was spent figuring out if Deckard was a replicant or not ("Do I have an… Read More
2014-05-28 03:30
Long-time readers, or those who are curious enough to do their research, will know I produced and directed a film, "Usher," around 2004.I curried favor and collected everyone I could to pitc… Read More
2014-05-19 17:32
When I think of Sleuth, I think of blue.They hired Kenneth Branagh and Harold Pinter to remake Anthony Shaffer's 1972 original in 2007. Based on a limited-character chamber piece written for… Read More
2013-11-21 01:30
Disney's new animated feature "Frozen" continues the development of generally hyperrealist CGI films for children and not only embraces the tension between a fantasy world and tools that mak… Read More
2013-07-12 03:10
A dozen people forwarded the article (from Hollywood Reporter) to me when Spielberg and Lucas gave a talk earlier this month at USC predicting the movie industry was headed for an "implosion… Read More
2013-04-29 05:54
My favorite genre, presuming there is a specific type of book I would automatically pick up in a used bookstore, is the Hollywood expose. Not the over-heated fictionalized biographie… Read More
2013-03-11 16:30
Over to the right there, in the margin is a link to one of my favorite film sites. See it? Lower, in the Film Sites section.To SwanArchives.org, which is devoted to the 1974 film "Phan… Read More
2013-02-13 17:01
Side By Side, the 2012 documentary that compares digital film-making process with celluloid aesthetics and the cultural repercussions of this, seems to locate the shift to the moment in whic… Read More
2012-09-12 19:47
Paul Thomas Anderson has done an audacious and a foolish thing. He shot "The Master" completely in 70mm (a rare event for a narrative, having last occurred in 1996 for Bra… Read More
2012-02-06 22:35
Some of my favorite bloggers (and blogs) are currently digging into their memories to unearth some of the best older films they saw in the last year (rather than the best of last year's rath… Read More
2011-12-05 02:41
Big movie theatre chains aren't just opening larger and larger megaplexes, to take over your independent film-viewing choices and the cultural landscape. They're also closing older, less po… Read More
2011-11-28 22:26
After 2+ years of working on this blog, I feel an argument or two has been made. Or at least alluded to.In fact it's possible I never quite got to the bottom or the end of a thought, owing… Read More
2011-05-11 18:40
As I walk to UCLA almost every day, I'm reminded of the rich cinematic history of the area being used in films, including Paul Schrader's "American Gigolo" (1980), which I just recently rewa… Read More
2011-04-16 19:56
UPDATE 4.24.11: Google has announced they will hold off on deleting their videos - for now.- - - - - -Google Video will be no more, as of May 13th. Post their announcement, the somewhat sn… Read More
2011-03-07 01:42
Seems the landscape for what you watch and where you watch it is getting more dangerous by the week. New announcements counteracting and contradicting the previous ones fly as different co… Read More
2011-02-19 20:42
Scanning the shelves in a video store (in the old days, meaning about 16 months ago), or browsing through Netflix's seemingly bottomless catalog both emphasize a sense that there is an incon… Read More
2010-12-15 05:54
Netflix isn't just about getting the new hot hits on DVD. The Psychotronic Netflix page on Facebook, post by post, and the increasingly indispensable Rupert Pupkin Speaks blog, in more comp… Read More
2010-10-10 18:33
Having peeked inside various archives in Los Angeles for the last couple of years and doing time there instead of merely looking over the fences I've become aware of a trend overtaking the c… Read More
2010-08-16 23:05
The release of the almost complete (33 of the 34) Chaplin Keystone films (all 1914) from Flicker Alley, remastered from the best surviving elements over the course of decades and internation… Read More
2010-07-21 18:36
More houses used to have libraries. Books used to be objects on every shelf - and heir to decay, tearing, browning at the edges, silver fish and mold.One collected books in order to become… Read More
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