How do you create a comedy that will last? You begin with the assumption that your audience isn’t a bunch of idiots. Armed with that assumption, its amazing how well a comedy can endure.
Tag: bob turnbull
Talkin’ UPSTREAM COLOR with Bob Turnbull. He and Ryan also read some listener feedback on documentaries and flip the record over to play the other side.
GMan starts a new podcast series, Chris waxes poetic about great sci-fi, and the new mum in Arkansas finds a documentary she likes.
This month, the blind spot series sends me back to Sunday School. Who needs a film with recorded dialogue when you have the expressive face of Maria Falconetti to express such a range of emotion?
We begin a new round of essentials with a bummer.
An sublimely, achingly, beautiful bummer.
That’s the thing about the film-going crowd in Toronto. Even when we agree, we still can’t agree.
As we prepare to turn the page on 2012, everyone is summarizing what they saw with a list.
Considering how well I thought I knew Whale’s adaptation of Shelly’s gothic tale, it’s amazing that I was moved as deeply as I was.
Digging into this film has been a long time coming. It hasn’t just waited through nine months of Blind Spots; it’s been patiently waiting for me on my own shelf for years
It’s bad enough this entry is two days overdue, I didn;’ need the selection itself to throw me for a loop and make matters worse.
I start listening to a new Brit podcast, Jessica is let down by Renoir, and Jake gives Tony Scott a benediction as the many joys of TIFF start to get larger and larger on the horizon.
Getting my first look at a film that seems to encapsulate so much of America’s military history: For better and for worse.