It’s amazing how sharp and influential a piece of art can seem eighty-five years after it was created.
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Peace be with you: A reading from The Gospel according to Saint Denys…
It was bound to happen eventually: The realization that I wasn’t as blind as I thought. But what would that mean for the first watch of this classic?
As we prepare to dive headlong into 2014, everyone is summarizing what they saw with a list.
Where Blind Spots are concerned, it feels like I’m ending 2013 where I started.
You have to smile when you see the lineage of some of your favorite films.
Across the Universe goes apocalyptic, The Mezzanine examines Woody at length, and Junebug lays down the law.
My romp through film history finally takes me to France. It;s there that I learn that French people are gloriously screwed up, and that my readers have amazing taste!
I often sit down to watch action films from times gone by and wonder “What do people see in this?”
This wasn’t one of those times.
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.
A few more thoughts on the big man from my brothers and sisters in arms.
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Sometimes it’s shocking how very true that old saying can be.