Monthly Archives: March 2009

Listen to me babble pretentiously about movies!

I just saw it. Only one more performance left! Tomorrow (Sunday). See it! You’ll never get another chance. Some of it: A character played entirely by a Cabbage Patch Kid One of the play’s nine acts consists almost entirely of … Continue reading →

Usually a film tells a story better when it doesn’t tell the whole story. Which is why any film that’s bloated with backstory is already on a course to fail.

The European Film Festival begins. My first two takes.

Tomorrow I’m going to see Greg Allen’s adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude. It’s rarely performed. This production is about 5 1/2 hours long, with two intermissions. I can’t wait to see how Greg injects his humor into the show. … Continue reading →

About Water: People and Yellow Cans [2007] 1. He is 85 years old. He has had to move at least 15 times because of the flooding.2. Gigantic, rusted ships strewn across the desert floor. The seashore has receded and is … Continue reading →

zoe_trope  summed up my feelings exactly: "I don’t like Twitter. It’s like the diarrhea of the Internet."

Bigger Than Life [1956] second viewing: 1. Richie wears exactly the same jacket as James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause.2. "They’ve figured out how to keep us alive longer. But they haven’t figured out why."3. The walls of their … Continue reading →