Guest Post – Communicating Strength Through Sound: Helicopters in Vietnam
Greetings, all and sundry! I would like to thank Michael for the opportunity to broach and examine a topic that may seem odd to some. Though…
TMT: Ballrooming
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Credit for this one goes to my blogging colleague,…
Same Song, Different Movie: Fly Me To The Moon by Bart Howard
This is the continuation of a series from early last year that looks at the use of “needle dropped” songs, many of them popular tunes, used in movies…
eBm: Favorite “Bond, James Bond.” Introductions
Okay, it’s now 2013 and there’s no Bond film on the immediate horizon. Argh! Perhaps, I’m merely venting my hangover from last year’s 50th anniversary celebration…
Son of Danse Macabre eBook Review
“Horror is defined by most as a subsection of the Fantasy genre, though I prefer Neil Gaiman’s metaphor of horror and fantasy as sister cities with…
A Close That’s a Beginning: Year of Bests – 2012
If last year is to be believed (seems so long ago now), I began a change, as I mentioned in April. Previously, I did not have a…
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.…
Versatile & Worthy: Year-End Awards
As I sit here on this bright and cold (for us here in L.A.) Sunday morning, suffering from my second cold in three months, feeling a…
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
As a fan of Jazz Fusion, and Dave Grusin and Tom Scott in particular, from long ago, I’m including one of my favorite cuts from the…
Merry Movie Music for the Holiday
Since it’s Christmas Day here in the U.S., and in keeping with the music theme from my last post, I thought to include some of my…
Seasonal Cheer via Art & Song
Some in-laws sent a link our way and we enjoyed it so much I thought to share. All care of cartoonist Joshua Held, it redeployed The Drifters‘ absolutely…
TMT: Growing Up When You Don’t Know It
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. I’d like to thank my film noir/western blogging colleague Colin of Riding the High Country once more for triggering this remembrance. If it wasn’t for his stellar review of a truly under appreciated film, this all could have gone by the wayside, I fear. From his article:
“Elegiac is a word that has been used more than a few times to describe westerns that began to appear in the 1960s and particularly in the 1970s. While many movies tagged with this term do have a certain sorrowful quality to them, I can’t help feeling that it’s been overused at times. On the other hand, there are occasions where this description is highly appropriate, Monte Walsh (1970) being one of them.”
Originally posted on Riding the High Country:
Well, the holidays are fast approaching, work is pretty hectic, and I didn’t feel like doing one of my…
Reprise: “No, I’m visiting relatives.” — Get Carter at 40
This film post, a reprise of a celebratory piece I wrote for Edward Copeland’s blog over a year ago for this stellar British crime film on its…
One Place for All the Assorted Thoughts on Bond
Through 2012, there have been some wonderful articles by my colleagues on all sorts of things Bond. Just for posterity, and to place the responses I’ve made…
Rolling Stone’s Top 10 James Bond Theme Songs
I promise just because Peter Travers went and ranked every Bond film, which I reacted to it, I’m not planning on making a Versus Rolling Stone article a…
Ranking the Family of Bond
“Shocking! Positively shocking!” Sit in enough waiting rooms and eventually you’ll find something good, or at least half-way interesting, to read among the periodicals left for…
Versus AFI: Top 10 of 100 Years… 100 Songs
Last month I completed the series I began back in January that examined and remarked on The American Film Institute and its recent proclivity to create lists. Specifically, the Top 10…
Opening Titles and Song: Dr. Strangelove
Whether you’ve noticed or not, I’ve been on a music motif this month. Still, I haven’t entirely abandoned movies. So when song and film coalesce, I…
It Rains... You Get Wet 