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Category Archives: Movies
Review: Carolina Caroline (2026
Reviewing Dinner in America was one of those fortuitous little coincidences that come with this particular racket. I see a lot of good movies, a lot of even great movies, but then there are movies – for whatever reason – … Continue reading
“Rock n’ roll! It’s the music of puberty.” — Suzi Quatro
Suzy Quatro was born on this day. In July of 2020 , I reviewed the documentary Suzi Q, about Suzi Quatro. Because it was July 2020, the tour she had planned, alongside the doc, had to be canceled. Or, at … Continue reading
“I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.” — Agnès Varda
It’s the birthday of Belgian filmmaker Agnès Varda, a pioneering force in the development of the French New Wave – she was French New Wave before it was even named “French New Wave.” When she died at the age of … Continue reading
Posted in Directors, Movies, On This Day
Tagged Agnes Varda, Belgium, France, Sandrine Bonnaire, women directors
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Reviews: Currents (2026)
Currents doesn’t help you interpret what you see. But what you see is so mesmerizing, watching the movie is like falling into it. You’re in the currents, if you will. Virginia Woolf’s extreme subjectivity in approach is an obvious reference … Continue reading
Reviews: Forge (2026)
What an interesting fun film about a brother-sister art-forgery team operating in the elite wealthy circles and/or art underground of Miami. Really good. I reviewed for Ebert.
“Only the bad directors tell you how to read a line, how to define your character. The good ones let you do your job.” — Carroll Baker
It’s her birthday today. When you look back on your life – especially once you’re, how you say, OLD – it’s sometimes interesting to try to untangle some of the strands, the things that happened that made you who you … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Movies, On This Day
Tagged Baby Doll, Carroll Baker, Elia Kazan, James Dean, Lee Strasberg, Memoirs, Something Wild
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“I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.” — György Ligeti
György Ligeti – whose birthday it is today – was a classical composer, born in Romania, who lived in Hungary as a young adult, before fleeing Stalinist oppression to Austria. As he said in an interview much later, he lived … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Music, On This Day
Tagged Hungary, Romania, Stalin, Stanley Kubrick
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An Acting Lesson: John Wayne and the “Reality of the Doing”
An old piece, re-posted for John Wayne’s birthday: In one lengthy scene in Hondo, filmed in one almost unbroken take, Wayne makes horseshoes in the little outdoor smith in the yard. Geraldine Page hovers nearby. He talks to her about … Continue reading
Physical Media Booklet Essay
Physical Media Booklet Essay is the brainchild of Sean Abley, whom I have known since we were 20something actors running from blackbox theatre to storefront theatre and back up and down the stores of Lake Michigan. He had a theatre … Continue reading
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