WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Today is Wednesday, July 23, the 205th day of 2008. There are 161 days left in the year.
Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
BIODUN IGINLA, BBC News, New York LEAD STORY July 23, 1984 Miss America resigns On this day in 1984, 21-year-old Vanessa Williams gives up her Miss America title, the first resignation in the pageant’s history,… MORE > GENERAL INTEREST 1952: Military seizes power in Egypt 1967: The 12th Street riot AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1793: Connecticut Patriot Roger Sherman dies AUTOMOTIVE 1903: First Ford model [...]...
The American Conservative (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Like Dennis Dale and Patrick J. Ford, I enjoyed WALL-E. I’m also astonished by its bashing by conservatives as “propaganda”, which reminds me of other subversive animated films, like the pro-spinanch Popeye or the crude anti-puppetry message of Pinocchio, not to mention the way vertically-challenged people were portrayed in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Shame on Hollywood! I recall...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Cuenca, Ecuador I arrived in Cuenca around 1am and managed to find a dismal little room at the Hotel Pichincha. By the next morning, it was clear that I wasn't feeling well and it was more than just fatigue from late-night traveling. I decided to ride out whatever illness I'd come down with in style, so I checked into a posh room ($16!) at the Hostal Colonial, complete...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
A couple months ago, I saw the theatrical trailer for the upcoming Tom Cruise historical action drama Valkyrie. Even then, it seemed like a joke. You wouldn’t have expected this if you had pitched this movie five years ago. Making a big-budget movie with one of the most bankable Hollywood stars ...
Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
> > · · · · · · · · · Next The Baby is BeautifulBy “What I’m angling for,” in a 1922 letter, “is a specific definite review.” Fitzgerald cast this epistolary line at his friend John Peale Bishop; Bishop had written to Fitzgerald to tell him that he’d been asked to review The Beautiful and the Damned, and did Fitzgerald have any thoughts about it? Indeed he did:I’ll tell you frankly what I’d rather...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Simon Louvish's elegantly exhaustive study of Cecil Blount DeMille (1881-1959) examines the actors life largely though through his 70 movies, completed during a 42-year career.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Film News: Collection includes Dreyer, Griffith titles -- Culture Minister Brian Mikkelsen will open the Danish Film Institute's $8.5 million underground vault in Hillerod, north of Copenhagen, home to its library of 6,800 fragile nitrate films, on Thursday.
The Glittering Eye (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
My admiration for the marketing folks at TCM (Turner Classic Movies) continues to grow. Last year they planned a Charlie Chan film festival. As you might expect this was met with angry outrage on the part of various Asian anti-defamation organizations not only for the “yellow face” portrayal of the Chinese detective (actors [...]
Bloodthirsty Liberal (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
I just wanted to weigh in on BLT’s comment about PUMA and Will’s take on the matter. I think that PUMA is a reaction to the fact that in 2000, the democrats were very upset about the way that the election was decided. I was extremely upset and remember it vividly. In this [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Adam Cvijanovic recreates a monumental scene from ancient history, as envisioned through the lens of D. W. Griffith.
Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
There it stood. 54 years before the dedication of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. 93 years before the doors opened to Walt Disney Concert Hall. 75 years before it’s own demolition to make way for a parking lot near 5th & Hill in Downtown Los Angeles. It opened with a performance of “Aida” on the largest stage [...]
(what is this?) (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Recently, for a work project, I watched parts of Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages, DW Griffith's silent colossal spectacle of 1916. I'm not too clear on the whole hoo-hah surrounding the film but suffice to say it was conceived as four intertwined stories set in Babylon, Judea, French Renaissance, modern America; it cost close to $2M to make; it had 3000 extras, and it bankrupted
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Plus: the Universal Studios fire somehow leads us to mashup of Public Enemy and D.W. Griffith.
Gawker (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Adam Cvijanovic gained notice for his massive landscapes, painted onto something like wallpaper and pasted onto gallery walls. His latest solo exhibition is equally ambitious and obsessive, inspired...
