Our week in the Movie Tree House is now over! Final comments by all of us (Jim Emerson, Jason Bellamy, moi, and Dennis Cozzalio), as well as a wrap-up from Dennis over on SLIFR.
Here is the complete conversation we’ve had over the week, in the proper order:
#1. Introduction (Dennis Cozzalio)
#2. Is there anything good playing this weekend? (Jim Emerson)
#3. A blue valentine to the personal (Me)
#4. The Bellamy Awards and different ways of looking at movies (Jason Bellamy)
#5. So much to see, so little time (Dennis)
#6. Human sexuality and Annette’s eyewear (Jim)
#7. Moments to remember (Jason)
#8. Actor-nerd sounds off (eloquently!) (Me)
#9. Won’t you please give it up for Emma Stone and the actresses of 2010! (Dennis)
#10. Those sublime sheep and that silly swan (Jim)
#11. Tilda Swinton is freakin’ great! (Me)
#12. Youth not at all wasted on the young (Jason)
#13. Postscript to a wonderful week (Dennis)
Thanks for collecting these. I deliberately left this unread until it was completed so I could tackle it all at once. This will be my weekend reading.
BTW, though less interactive, you might be interested in reading our own “end of year” symposium over at Wide Screen (participants include Glenn Kenny, Simon Abrams, Kurt Loder, Vadim Rizov, Karl Rozemeyer, the Siren, and me).
Tony – yes, I read the roundup (I reference it in my last piece, actually – at least The Siren’s opening comment). It was great stuff. Love what you all are up to over there!!
And to other readers visiting here – definitely check out the link in Tony’s comment. There’s so much to read over there, it’s overwhelming, but definitely worth the time!
Tony – I saw the abysmal Gigli with Kurt Loder and a group of friends a million years ago. A bunch of us went in a mad gaggle because we HAD to see the trainwreck. I still remember some of Kurt’s caustic hilarious comments in the nearly-empty theatre. Good guy, good writer. Nice to see him over there!
Cool. Thanks for the endorsement.
Regarding Loder, and most of the others, I feel a bit like the outsider because of my geographical distance from NYC. But I do visit NYC at least once a year (usually for the NYFF) and have hung out with Glenn and the Siren a few times. I hope to do the same with my fellow Wide Screen writers next time I’m there (and hopefully with you as well).
I know Kurt through a friend who worked at MTV and we all became friends. So it’s totally separate from the film critic crowd, but still: really nice to see him in that fine group over there!
And yes, go check out our week-long conversation – it was really fun, and a good challenge for me to write about, you know, CURRENT releases, and not the latest from Clara Bow or whatever. :)
And would love to meet up next time you come to town!