About a week ago, Cecil Adams The Straight Dope Chicago tackled why so few movies were filmed in Chicago during the reign of Richard J. Daley in the 60's and 70's. Adams cited the then Chicago mayor's antipathy to how productions such as the popular The Untouchables television series reinforced Al Capone gangster stereotypes. Still a few films slipped by, most prominently Haskell Wexler's extraordinary...
Bruno Dumont's Hadewijch departs from his familiar aesthetic of landscapes as abstract manifestations of internal states to create a spare and intimate, yet equally provocative exploration of absolute...
There’s a new book in town! Now that the professional mourners have put their veils and candles away, the enormity of the artistic life of Michael Jackson remains. To help us make sense of and celebrate those numerous achievements, Armond has put together a collection of his MJ writings under the title Keep Moving and [...]
Film Review #211: The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928/DVD 1999 Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer Cast: Renee Maria Falconetti & others The idea of what makes a woman hero dates back at least to female medieval mystics, among them Joan of Arc, the illiterate French peasant girl whose “divine voices” told her to unite France, assist in the crowning of the young Charles VII and expel the English...
Ryan McGinley and Tilda Swinton , the photographer and actress that the clothing company Pringle of Scotland tapped to shoot and star in its Spring 2010 campaign, appear to be extremely intimate friends: Between the hand-holding and the snuggling, they alternately call each other "twin sisters" and "brothers from another mother." So it was a bit shocking to learn, at a dinner in...
Poet John Keats fell in love with the girl next door, but it all ended too soon, and badly. "Bright Star" satisfies a hunger we may not have known we had, a hunger for an exquisitely done, emotional love story that marries heartbreaking passion to formidable filmmaking restraint, all in the service of an unapologetically romantic belief in "the holiness of the heart's affections."...
International News: Director seeks finance for Kerouac's 'Road' -- Walter Salles on Friday disembarked at the Lido to be honored by the Vatican with its annual Robert Bresson Prize.
A selection of films are in the cottage but if there are any specifics, particularly off the following list, just ask & we'll try & reserve them for you We love films… We’re continuing to build up a collection of films, it’s our second decade and the library is getting bigger. At this point we’ve bought loads of old classic foreign language flicks, mostly with subtitles....
As stated in my previous 'State of Mind' post, the beginning of August started with me having the house to myself. I pretty much describe what occured then in that post. When they arrived, surprisingly, I was calm and not in the slightest bit perturbed by their appearance. But over the course of time, I come to the realisation that their lives depress me... They are so complacent and reluctant to discover...
Recently I had the chance to watch and write on a terrific new modern noir starring Tom Sizemore and Sasha Alexander called The Last Lullaby . This incredibly effective film is the first feature from a very talented young filmmaker named Jeffrey Goodman. Jeffrey has been gracious enough to take part in this Question and Answer session for Moon in the Gutter that I hope everyone will read and enjoy....
-- Will it be enough? LACMA receives $150,000 toward its film program that had been scheduled to close in October and that will now run through June. -- Hometown boy: Tony winner Stew discusses his L.A. roots and the new...
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