(Being the first of many of these I'll be producing this summer.) With summer here and only some online teaching duties to attend to—meaning that I can put the 2½ hours I don't have to commute to and from campus to better use—I've decided to address...
film
Time to take care of this blog's failure to pay attention to Gilded Age pugilism.
Enigmatic? No: He yearned, he sometimes said, to be other than what he was. “I wish I could be more like normal people — like these people here,” he told.
The latest Mad Men ("The Other Woman") presented me with more to think about than I can currently wrap my head around, but so too did the latest Games of Thrones ("Blackwater"), albeit it for very different reasons. So instead of delving into "The Other Woman" or...
The 1930s: a decade where you could have mainstream cartoons about children going hungry that would resonate with people's experiences. Good times.
I recently watched If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, which came out last year. The film follows the story of Daniel McGowan, a radical member.
I'm still having trouble seeing Bill Murray as Franklin Roosevelt, but he does have the look down. Also, I'm really glad Murray refuses to do Ghostbusters 3.
The problem with Tim Burton is not that he repeatedly casts Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. That's silly. Was it a problem that Akira Kurosawa repeatedly cast Toshiro Mifune?.
Geoffrey O'Brien has a great essay on silent films in the New York Review of Books. A very small selection: The seduction of silent cinema is the seduction of a.
Not only do you now have to pay to be an extra in a movie, but Groupon offers deals so you can pay less!
Darren Aronofsky is directing a film about Noah and the ark starring Russell Crowe as Noah? Um. Wow. Will the scenes on the boat be very, very slow? Hey look,.
The last structure from the early New York film industry is in trouble. The old Vitagraph studio lot in Brooklyn is long gone, but its smokestack remains. It is falling.