We lost Bob McGrath from Sesame Street. So tonight’s Film Club is a tribute to him from a 1977 episode of Sesame Street that, like so many of the episodes from that legendary show, was an attempt to make the deaf accepted in society. RIP.
Tag: LGM film club
A lot of the all-time great films are pretty problematic–Birth of a Nation, The Searchers, Manhattan, we could go on. To say the least, values change. How do we deal with that? This isn’t
When The Fog of War came out, I remember people saying Errol Morris was way too easy on Robert McNamara. But no, I don’t think that’s right. I didn’t then and I still don’t aft
This 1947 travel film about Rhode Island is….something. Kinda boring. Kinda interesting for the footage. Kinda offensive in the statement that Rhode Island has no history before white settlement. Kinda 1947 America.
I’m sitting here watching a Sunday Night Football game. And it’s Thanksgiving week. This means only one thing–tonight’s film is the legendary 2002 Monday Night game with the Ea
I did not get my life together enough this week to finish my music notes post, so that is going to wait til next week and be extra long. But I did watch Grateful Dawg last night, the 2000 film by Davi
Look, I know that if I was a kid in 1966, I would absolutely support the Vietnam War because a) Batman and b) that card with LBJ’s picture on it.
Tonight’s film is an exceedingly rare one. Rising Tones Cross is a German documentary from 1985 about the New York avant-garde jazz scene. Directed by Ebba Jahn, it features some amazing perform
I’m reading Emily Remus’ 2019 book A Shoppers’ Paradise: How the Ladies of Chicago Claimed Power and Pleasure in the New Downtown. One of the chapters discusses the late 19th century
Tonight, let’s watch the 1950 adaptation of Hemingway’s Have and Have Not, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring John Garfield as the desperate and proud sea captain, Patricia Neal as the seductive woman he sort of befriends, Phyllis Thaxter as his wife, and Juano Hernandez and Wallace Ford in key supporting roles. It was an […]
If you are looking for a silly old movie to wile away an evening without thinking too much, you could do worse than the 1937 John Cromwell film The Prisoner of Zenda. This is a story that takes place
There’s no reason to explain Rashomon, which I watched last night for the fifth or sixth time. So let’s talk about one somewhat controversial aspect of the film–the acting. The early