I know it’s Oscars Night, but why not include a Film Club as a secondary thread on it. This is a piece from the 1976 Winter Olympics promotional film White Rock. It’s actually pretty inter
Nothing like remembering the good times of 1979, when the Iran hostage crisis went down. Here’s an ABC news report six days into the crisis. This is actually a pretty interesting view into the i
Early in the film series, we watched one of the iconic Rainier commercials which anyone in the Northwest in the 1980s most definitely remembers. Well, the history of beer commercials is long and fruit
Monte Hellman died yesterday, requiring Two Lane Blacktop to be tonight’s film selection. I find this film to be a real distillation of counterculture masculinity, with the obsession with the ca
Since we started the day off with Frederick Winslow Taylor, it only makes sense to close it out with the greatest manifestation of Taylorism ever placed on the screen, which is of course Chaplin’
Hey, Bernie Madoff died. I know no one is sadder than Mets fans! Remember back when this grifter scumbag was seen as a genius and serious figure that people had to listen to? Those sure were good time
I watched the 1952 film The Las Vegas Story the other night. Directed by Robert Stevenson, it stars Jane Russell, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, and Hoagy Carmichael. It’s more OK than great; the
I recently watched Liliana Cavani’s 1981 film The Skin. Adapted from Curzio Malaparte’s memoir about Italy during World War II, it’s a fascinating if not totally successful film. Cav