By Luke de Smet Mad Men is nothing if not thematically well organized, and typically, writing about an episode consists of picking out the throughline and explicating how it brings together all the disparate plot elements. Typically, though, that throughline exists in the subtext, which makes “The Grown-Ups”, written by Brett Johnson and Matthew Weiner and directed by Barbet Schroeder,...
All this year, and even before, Matthew Weiner has been notably coy about how or even if the J.F.K. assassination would figure into the 1963-set plotline of this about-to-end third season of his hit series, Mad Men.
"Mad Man," the series with which every critic in the country seems to be smitten except me, lured no less than Barbet Schroeder in to direct last night's episode "The Grown-Ups," Schroeder's first venture into TV and the next-to-last installment of the season. (And one that -- whoops -- some found disappointing.) Schroeder's not the first unusual director to pop up in "Mad...
I really believed that Matthew Weiner would leave that crucial moment in history--namely, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy--until next week's finale but I'm glad that he didn't as it allows the audience to see the fallout, both social and personal, from that Dallas killing, dragging the nation as it did into the into the harsh realities of adulthood. JFK's assassination has hung like...
USA Feature Film Director: Barbet Schroeder Writer: Charles Bukowski Cinematographer: Robby Müller Composer: Jack Baran Cast: Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, Jack Nance, J.C. Quinn, Frank Stallone From an original screenplay by Bukowski, featuring his fictional alter ego, Henry Chinaski, this grubbily entertaining film - a typically unromantic portrait of a poverty row writer, who spends...
The film La Vallee has intrigued me ever since seeing some stills on the cover of the Pink Floyd soundtrack album Obscured By Clouds , which I bought in 1974 or so on the grounds that it was cheaper than Dark Side of The Moon ; it remains one of my favourite Floyd albums, partly because it retains a complexity and imprecision, recounting a narrative in verbal snapshots, interspersed with droning instrumentals....
France Short Film Writer/Director: Eric Rohmer Cinematographers: Bruno Barbey, Jean-Michel Meurice Cast: Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon, Bertrand Tavernier A handsome young student and rampant litterbug with an ever-expanding waistline enjoys a brief, flirtatious encounter with an attractive young woman, but when she subsequently disappears he very casually eases his way...
Btms ^ for Wednesday, August 26, over the hump day! Drink Forecast for Today (DF 4 2day): We vote 2 enjoy Gallo of Sonoma or Barefoot Wines & 2 toast 2 female winemakers & the 19th Amendment enactment 2day in 1920…women’s right 2 vote! Complimentary Sip& Sample Wines this Week @ ALL Liquor Barns, Today through [...]
Sir Howard Stringer introduced Nora Ephron at the Julie & Julia premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater on Thursday night, calling the writer/producer/director who is also a dynamite cook as readers of her best seller “Heartburn” know, “a woman for all...
The lines continue to fade. As Jia Zhang-ke and Gus Van Sant invariably redefine their idiosyncratic hybrids of documentary, performance art, and experiential drama, documentaries begin to take on the characteristics and structure not only of narrative filmmaking, but of specific genres. Barbet Schroeder's hulking Terror's Advocate could have been a Costa-Gavras joint; was a high-stakes thriller that...
Charles Bukowski in 1985 giving a tour around Hollywood Blvd and Western Ave in Los Angeles from the back of a convertible, pointing out his favorite bars, hookers and drug dealers. The scene is interview #9 from the documentary The Charles Bukowski Tapes by Barbet Schroeder, who later went on to make the film Barfly [...] This is a blog post from Laughing Squid . For more content like this, subscribe...
Charles Bukowski narrates a tour of the Hollywood and Western area, highlighting his favorite bars, hangouts, hookers and dope-dealers. From "The Charles Bukowski Tapes" (1985), by Barbet Schroeder, via...
Seeing Deerhunter – the band, not the movie – at the Scala in Kings Cross recently bought back nostalgic memories of watching all night Kenneth Anger movies there when it was still a cinema. London's repertory cinemas are now all but non-existent. Even if a few remain open as cinemas, they are but shadows of their former selves: the Everyman in Hampstead Heath now shows the latest Harry...
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