My good friend Aurora responded in high style to my invitation to join in on Dennis Cozzalio’s semi-regular movie quiz festivities. Well done, Aurora. Well done.
Guest Post: In Which We Serve: (1942)
Greeting all and sundry! After many years of watching and enjoying films and television. I have come to the conclusion that the Brits do some things…
No Wonder My Allergies Are Raging Springtime Movie Quiz
Writer Dennis Cozzalio, he of the wonderfully titled Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule site, is well-regarded for his in-depth knowledge and thoughtful essays he gladly shares…
Best Album Covers: A Hard Day’s Night
This is the next entry in Best Album Covers, a series begun right here. As has been referred to, the first successful long-playing microgroove record for the phonograph…
Originally posted on The Best Picture Project:
The first of five movies featuring The Beatles was A Hard Day’s Night in 1964. By then, Beatlemania was…
Best Album Covers: Brain Salad Surgery
This is the next entry in Best Album Covers, a series begun right here. As has been noted, the first successful long-playing microgroove record for the phonograph was…
Hello, Goodbye
These things are always hard to write… My younger (by a year and eight months) brother always seemed to do a lot of things before I…
TMT: The Cheaper, The Better
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Recently, my colleague and guest post writer, Kevin (aka Jack Deth), provided another wonder contribution toward Paula, Kellee, and Aurora ‘s splendid 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon. His look at 1973 — A Very Good Year rekindled one of these memories. This for a noted drama that surprised many, especially at the 46th Academy Awards…
Guest Post – Film Quality Television: Crime Story (Pilot) 1986
Greetings, all and sundry! It is not often that I am afforded the opportunity to heap praise and boat about a recent purchase. But just as…
Reblogged: Oscars 2013 – James Bond’s not-so-secret life on the charts
Randy Lewis, writing for the L.A. Times, in prep for “… the motion picture academy’s salute to James Bond coming up at the Oscars on Sunday“,…
31 Days of Oscar – Recant This! Recasting Oscar’s Picks: the 00s
Bloggers Paula, Kellee, and Aurora are in the final days of another successful online event. The 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon. The goal set is to get down in writing any…
31 Days of Oscar – Recant This! Recasting Oscar’s Picks: the 90s
The blogathon masters Paula, Kellee, and Aurora are at it again. They’ve come up with the 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon. Their blogging goal is to get down in writing any…
31 Days of Oscar – Recant This! Recasting Oscar’s Picks: the 80s
The blogathon masters Paula, Kellee, and Aurora are at it again. They’ve come up with the 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon. Their goal is for bloggers to write or dish upon…
31 Days of Oscar – Recant This! Recasting Oscar’s Picks: the 70s
The blogathon masters Paula, Kellee, and Aurora are at it again. They’ve come up with the 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon. Their goal, a worthy one, is for bloggers to…
Best Album Covers: A Start
A couple of years ago writer Rob O’Connor, penning a column for Yahoo Music, posted a dead-on article that related on a subject I have a…
TMT: “This list… is an absolute good.”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Two quite separate but relatable things induced this particular theatre, movie memory. The first being last month’s initial-viewing of the 2004 thought-provoking documentary, Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust. The other being my colleague ckckred’s 2012 piece, Stanley Kubrick on Schindler’s List I only recently found:
“Schindler’s List is perhaps the highest praised film of the last twenty years and one of the most heralded. Though Kubrick does have a valid point, I feel he’s missing the message of Schindler’s List. Spielberg’s story not only was about the Holocaust, but the redemption of a man. Oskar Schindler’s rescue of hundred of Jews is not only heroic and brave, but also touching to the audiences.”
Originally posted on Riding the High Country:
We all die, just a question of when. I’m an unashamed fan of westerns from the 1950s, the genre’s…
The Hot Rock Film Review
A brand spanking new year, 2013, and we’re already one month down. Almost. The last day in January means it is time once more to restart…
Guest Post – Sweaty Men in Film
Greetings, all and sundry! It isn’t often that circumstances, however odd fall into place so serendipitously. As to nudge a thought from the back of my…
You Know How to Love Me: An Appreciation of Phyllis Hyman
Like anyone else, I’m tied to the era that spawn me. This readily applies to the music I listen to, as well. My wife more than once…
It Rains... You Get Wet 