Your Mileage May Vary
Posted on April 13, 2009 - Filed Under Books, Drinking, Film, Politics, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
The Gray Lady covers a kerfuffle surrounding the Russian film Taras Bulba, adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s novel.
“Ultranationalist” politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky apparently likes what he sees: “Everyone who sees the film will understand that Russians and Ukrainians are one people — and that the enemy is from the West.”
Meanwhile, “The premiere inspired viewers in Krasnodar to [...]
Let’s All go to the Movies
Posted on July 11, 2008 - Filed Under Film, Mark Your Calendars, Movies | Leave a Comment
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival kicks off tonight.
The full schedule:
FRIDAY, JULY 11
The Kid Brother 7:00PM
Opening Night Party 9:15PM
SATURDAY, JULY 12
Amazing Tales from the Archives 10:00AM
The Soul of Youth 11:40AM
Les Deux Timides (Two Timid Souls) 2:15PM
Mikaël (Michael) 4:15PM
The Man Who Laughs 7:45PM
The Unknown 10:45PM
SUNDAY, JULY 13
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 10:30AM
The [...]
Omaha – Stuff White People Like
Posted on March 21, 2008 - Filed Under Film, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
The Gray Lady meets Omaha film organization meets social “commentary”:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/white-people-in-the-news-march-20th-2008/
Red Christmas
Posted on December 12, 2007 - Filed Under Film, Mark Your Calendars, Time Travel and The Intergalactic | Leave a Comment
You can never go home.
But I can go to the movies!
{national film schedule}
Read More..>>Film Streams: adaptations series (and donuts)
Posted on August 29, 2007 - Filed Under Books, Event Calendar, Film, Food | 1 Comment
Always looking to boosterize events back in the Big O (Omaha, that is), I’m happy to pass along word of an upcoming film series featuring movies adapted from novels. The series runs from August 31 though October 4, in conjunction with Omaha Public Library’s intriguingly themed Litfest: Depraved Women Writers (& Others)1 . Library [...]
Read More..>>bittersweet
Posted on April 16, 2007 - Filed Under Art, Film, Music | Leave a Comment
Kurt Andersen takes his Studio 360 podcast to Omaha focusing on its arts & music “scene”. On the web site, there is a marked-up google map with some extra video & audio, including this broadcast from my favorite theater from back in the day, the former Cinerama theater Indian Hills (now a parking lot). Equally [...]
Read More..>>Blindness Off Broadway
Posted on February 6, 2007 - Filed Under Books, Film, The Stage | Leave a Comment
Can’t wait for the film adaptation of Jose Saramago’s Blindness? It’s coming to an off-broadway production possibly near you March 1 through April 18.
Read More..>>Terms of Endearment
Posted on November 13, 2006 - Filed Under Film | 1 Comment
So the Times asked 22 “funny” people the five movies they’d take with them to the obligatory deserted island, thus making me aware of my ignorance of the Marx Brothers, Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, and Peter Sellers.
 Since you asked, here’s mine:
Blazing Saddles–the mind shudders to think that Richard Pryor could’ve played Sheriff Bart.
Flirting [...]
Clicks and Hisses
Posted on October 23, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Death, Film, Music, Religion | Leave a Comment
The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn in an interview at the Star Tribune:
being a Saul Bellow fan, I was drawn to the fact that Bellow called him [John Berryman] America’s greatest writer,” Finn said. “He became Minneapolis’ most famous suicide. He also had converted to Catholicism before his death. In my mind, all that added up [...]
Links are so verry, verry goood…
Posted on October 4, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Film, Sports | Leave a Comment
…for me to Dump On You!!
Clinton at WFMU’s blog takes an impressive look back at the Choose Your Adventure series, staple reading for yours truly when I roamed the halls of Thomas Alva Edison Elementary.
Geek out on lexicography with a healthy dose of Orwell references.
Next year starts today. Are we there yet?
I like Proust and [...]
Read More..>>Fernando Meirelles to direct ‘Blindess’
Posted on September 13, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Film | 1 Comment
Fernando Meirelles, who directed City of God, will begin production of the adaptation of Jose Saramago’s Blindess. Apparently it took a while to convince Saramago:
Fichman said in one of their early meetings with Saramago, the writer told him he believed cinema destroyed the imagination. “I paused for a second,” Fichman remembers, “and thought I agreed [...]
Quote of the Day
Posted on July 10, 2006 - Filed Under Film | Leave a Comment
“Patrick Zook, the real-life Rex Kwon Do…”
Read More..>>Link Dump of the Beast
Posted on June 6, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Death, Film, Music | Leave a Comment
The Omaha World-Herald has given an online platform for cranks to write what they would say to President Bush regarding Immigration to the United States. I’m no stats wizard, but there seem to be two common threads to those wishing to speak to El Jefe.
They speak in incomplete sentences, often switching between yelling and normal [...]
Read More..>>Blog Hollywood Blog
Posted on March 5, 2006 - Filed Under Film, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Television | Leave a Comment
Tito is down with the E.D.
now every feeder wants to read me
Jeff Bryant is smooth, word to mother
Let’s blog the Oscars, along with others
Trolling technorati late at night
Googling yourself, quite a common sight
Blurbed in gawker, getting played like a sucka
Don’t fight the power, blog the muthafucker
PGMG / Video Contest
Posted on February 4, 2006 - Filed Under Contests, Film, Music | Leave a Comment
The folks at youtube.com are running a contest with Matador records
In addition to adding the title “music video maker” to your resume, the winner will be given $1,000 in cold, hard cash and be flown out to New York all expenses paid to hang with the band and see them live in concert courtesy of [...]
Post Title
Posted on February 1, 2006 - Filed Under Film, Language, Music, Sports | Leave a Comment
Bill Simmons: Is The Sports Movie Dead?
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I may have chosen “non-violent”: “Although loud, the demonstration remained peaceful.”
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Noisepop is starting to rumble again with a few early confirmed artists: Feist, Kieran Hebden of Four Tet with legendary jazz drummer Steve Reid, Thursday, Two Gallants, We Are Scientists, Minus The Bear, The National, ISIS, Rogue Wave, Kid [...]
Guardian of Bad Religion
Posted on December 6, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Film, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Politics, Religion, Theology | 1 Comment
After seeing links from Laila Lalami and Bookslut to Polly Toynbee’s Guardian “review” of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, I thought I’d check it out – mostly because of Lalami’s remarks that it would be enough to keep her away from a movie she may have otherwise seen. The article is in [...]
Read More..>>For Those Scoring At Home
Posted on December 1, 2005 - Filed Under Film, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Religion, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Number of made-for-television biographies:
Pope John “We Need More Saints” Paul II: II
Amy “Long Island Lolita” Fisher”: III1
What does this all mean? Nothing more than serve as a reminder of the existential crises I am thrown into each time I ask myself, “Is the Pope Polish?“.
1Once you go Roman, you never go back.
And you didn’t like school
and you know you’re nobody’s fool
Posted on December 1, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Film, Liberal Media Conspiracies | Leave a Comment
Jon Carroll, who perhaps could talk to a former colleague about screenwriters, has a case of the Mondays.
Ideally, the system should be there to support good work. A good system is an invisible system, in the same way that good acting is invisible acting. But we don’t seem to have many good systems anymore. I [...]
Omaha Reads: To Kill A Mockingbird
Posted on November 17, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Film, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
One of my favorite moments in the The Hold Steady’s “Stevie Nix” is the lamentation “lord, to be sssseventeen forever” (it sounds better than it reads). True to this spirit, barring any worm holes or other leaps in the time-space continuum, Omahans have opted to relive freshman high school literature classes by choosing To Kill [...]
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