You'll thank me for the theme song and Bucky Dent, if not the fine, fine acting and disco. Not to mention Jane Seymour and Bert Convy.
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I am really excited to watch the 1920 film The Daughter of Dawn, once thought lost (like about 85 percent of silent films) and now found. The Daughter of Dawn.
I'd like to credit Robert Altman with crafting the most successful political campaign by someone named Walker in American presidential history. Because Scott Walker sure as hell doesn't beat this,.
If the writers of LGM ever got together in the same place, I believe the alcohol consumption would look something like Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan: As it should now be clear to you, dear reader, Soviet soldiers were not that discriminating when sourcing their sauce....
Why can't Orson Welles be brought back from the dead to narrate documentaries? Had to link instead of embed because of the film's privacy settings, but it's a cool documentary.
Someone needs to make a dark, shadowy film with angular shots about this heinous crime, no doubt perpetrated by a mastermind criminal. Today, the story of Murnau’s death gets a.
I have discussed the 1971 New Left dystopian film Punishment Park here a bit before. I've mentioned that it is a great leftist film and that the wonderful Paul Motian did the soundtrack. And I think I've mentioned the plot--that post-Kent State, Nixon has ordered...
....are very, very short.
So as I am in DC, I managed to spend part of the evening in the company of truly evil people, i.e. Republican congressmen and staffers at a reception that.
So I finally watched Selma. A few observations long after the debate has dissipated. 1. The main issue in the Selma debate was the portrayal of Lyndon Johnson. Critics said the portrayal was too cynical and didn't give LBJ his due. Phooey. First, this isn't...
I just watched Marjoe, the 1972 documentary about an ex-child preacher turned hippie who supported himself by going back out on the preacher circuit even though he believed none of.
I had a whole bunch of stuff to write about today and then it didn't happen for a number of reasons. But I still found time to watch Les Blank's.