Jodorowsky
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Cinema
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Cinema, Culture
Roger Ebert and “Democracy in the Dark”
My first impression of Roger Ebert, many years ago when he was doing the Siskel/Ebert weekly dustup, was that he
Cinema, Culture
Thirteen homicidal, macabre ghostly tinglers and William Castle
We just watched the excellent documentary “Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story” on TCM, and it inspired a cascade of
Cinema, Culture
Wells and Welles
Ran across this interesting conversation, Orson Welles jamming with H.G. Wells in San Antonio, Texas, of all places. Welles attributed
4th Way, Cinema, Culture
“Shame” and transformation
Just saw the grim but enlightening film “Shame,” wherein Michael Fassbender plays Brandon, a bland, disarmingly handsome thirtysomething obsessed with
Cinema, Media
Roger Ebert: “a first-rate second-rate memoirist”
Maureen Dowd writes about Roger Ebert’s memoir, and about the disfiguring surgical failures that have rendered him unable to speak,
Cinema, Environment/Climate
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life may be the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (or not); in his film
Business, Cinema, Social Media, Technology
The Social Network
The David Fincher/Aaron Sorkin film collaboration called “The Social Network” is not about technology, though there are scenes that suggest
Cinema, Media
Happy Birthday, Ray Harryhausen
Heroic special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen, whose influence nearly led me to a craft for which I probably would have
Cinema
The Hurt Locker
When “The Hurt Locker” screened at SXSW, I thought it was one of the better films I’d seen in years,