it's a banner day for film viewing for me today: i've seen two much anticipated films - Manda Bala (2.5/5 theater or nothing) and Eastern Promises (3/5 see it). I'm now rewatching The Proposition, which I'm seeing for comparison to 3:10 to Yuma (2.5/5 see it). I see the former as an "outsider's" western with readymade cult-appeal owing to the Nick ( Read more... )

Initial reports were false or based on incomplete data. The man who cornered one of the ducks at the Saint Paul Hotel, then wrenched its head off telling onlookers that he was hungry was not a business traveller. He was a homeless vagrant, and, "He likely was hungry," says Police Sgt. John Wuorinen ( Read more... )

I wrote a letter to the editor in which I waxed all poetic about the bridge collapse. Watch for it.

Also: I am looking up my credit reports online. Here's what: I am disappointed that the credit reporting agencies are charlatans who want to make me pay for shit I don't need, link me over to Lasik sites, etc.

Here is my challenge for In the Cut, the Campion film from 2003 that I would like to see proceed to the next round. I have tried to be clear, but there is a lot to say about this film. I don't expect to be in league with the great psychoanalytic writing about Hitchcock, only to borrow some of that writing's accessibility and, to me, exciting ( Read more... )

I'll soon be returning from Colorado ( Read more... )

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Please weigh in here. Provide examples and show your work. This is as serious as bridge torsion.

EC is now swimming the english channel with her relay team ( Read more... )

I just looked at and captured my footage from London. Wow, I wish I'd taken another day to shoot. I'll just have to go back. I have a lot of footage of a street performer, probably one of the most commercial I've ever seen. But I want to find out who he is. How does one start to do something like that? I need to give him credit in these times ( Read more... )

I can't imagine Rescue Dawn disappointing fans of director/writer Werner Herzog's fictional oeuvre unless it is because he has rendered Dieter Dengler's story as something so consistent with the others, forcing this actual man to stand alongside his cast of holy fools ( Read more... )

Hi everyone ( Read more... )