How could I choose anything else tonight? https://www.youtube.com/embed/VQbX_Q35Yhw
LGM film club
I gave the keynote address for the Rhode Island Labor History Society's annual Labor Day gathering. Despite the horrible weather (it rained 3 inches that day and more in some.
Biopics tend to be bad. It almost makes me cry whenever the internet demands a biopic of this or that left/liberal hero since the film, if it does get made,.
I recently read Tom Turner's biography of Sierra Club leader David Brower. It's alright, more of the story by someone who knew him closely than a real deep historical examination. When discussion the saving of Dinosaur National Monument from the Bureau of Reclamation's dam 'em...
Very much not a film for everyone, but Ninja Thyberg's debut feature film, Pleasure, about a Swedish girl who moves to Los Angeles to become a porn star, is one.
Somehow, I had never seen Pumping Iron. So I did. This is such a well-known film that I don't think we need an explainer. I will say two things. First,.
I don't know why I had never seen Alex Cox's Walker but I finally did. On the surface, the film is gold to me--a biopic of the lunatic "gray eyed man of destiny," William Walker, who invaded Nicaragua to expand slavery and whose claims to...
I watched the 2020 Spike Lee concert film of David Byrne last night. It was widely loved by the critics, being near or at the top of many Best of.
If you want a linear plot, Neptune Frost is not the film for you. But if you want the rare African film (in fact a collaboration between the Rwandan director.
Criterion has a series of Romy Schneider films, which is fun because it unveils a whole world of 60s and 70s European films I haven't seen before. One of them is Claude Sautet's Max and the Junkmen, from 1971. This film stars Michael Piccoli as...
I recently finished Janette-Susan Bailey's Dust Bowl: Depression America to World War Two Australia, which is a very interesting look at how intellectual and cultural responses to the Dust Bowl.
I know this is published a bit late tonight, but daddy won't force you to go to bed without your bedtime story. In this case, your story is footage of.