Category: EDITOR’S BLOG
TFCA Winners & Runners Up
List of freshly announced winners & runners-up of the Toronto Film Critics Asociation, plus a tally of titles currently and soon-to-be on home video (because you must know these things)…
Film Music 2010 (or a lengthy preamble to a simple set of points any fool could make in under 200 words)
Before I post the latest list of late Dec. / early Feb. soundtracks (new & imminent), this is probably the best time to blather about soundtracks in 2010. . .Blather A: Memories & Perspective Not the best-of, most notable, best soundtrack label stuff, but just an opinion or two on trends from the vantage of […]
The Hearn Modern?
Editor’s Blog on the abandoned Hearn Generation Station, and links to striking photo-essays…
Dizzying Post-Boxing Day Blather
Part of the holidays includes food, drink, some quiet time, annoying time with crowds, and, er, getting sick now and then, so it’s perhaps expected that whatever knocked me down last Wednesday came back this holiday weekend. Instead of delicious chocolates and cake, it’s been Advil and lying horizontal to quell headaches & dizziness…
Christmas Jeers
Editor’s Blog on the plight of Jafar Panahi, and a DVD review of the 2009 documentary Kimjongilia (Mongrel / Lorber) of life under a big fist…
Blake Edwards R.I.P.
Writer / director / producer Blake Edwards passed away December 19 at the age of 88, leaving behind wife Julie Andrews, two children, and an extraordinary body of work…
This is MY Christmas Movie
There are two ways to appraise the act of writing a piece on a film you saw a long, long time ago, one that predates the birth of the average, present day film student: a nostalgia piece, which can delve into cranky-old-fart syndrome; or just elaborating on why a particular movie you saw during its original engagement is still a damn fine film…
Back from Oblivion I: Evening Primrose (1966)
When a TV series – or a singular episode – from the early days of the idiot box is found to have survived studios & networks junking old kinescopes, re-using video stock, or the dumpster (very real threats that eliminated whole chunks of early TV history), it’s kind of an expected miracle, because many productions from the era of live TV are known / expected to be rare: productions like the dramatic anthology series Playhouse 90 were broadcast live, and filmed kinescopes were used for rebroadcasts…
Dailey, Trumbull, and repercussions of a billion dollar boondoggle
Editorial blather on the passing of City TV’s Voice, Mark Dailey, Douglas Trumbull at the TBL (oh, you now what it is), and found footage yields further disgust from G20 boondoggle…
Soundtrack producer interviews & other news
Just uploaded are interviews with soundtrack producers Bruce Kimmell (Kritzerland Records) and George Fox (2M1 Records), a link to my Rue Morgue blog on The Revue Cinema’s recent screening of The Shining, and sundry heads-up of important screenings this coming week, including The Grey Fox, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, and Die Hard…
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