Author Archives: AaronOOF

Oh dear. I don’t mean to get away from the whole entertainment thing so quickly again, but I have to vent just a wee bit. As I’ve mentioned (over-and-over-and-over), my apartment search and move was somewhat horrific. Now, I’ve been in my new apartment nearly a month, and I’m still not completely settled. My roomContinue reading “THE FIRST NEIGHBORHOOD DISAPPOINTMENT — TILLIE’S OF BROOKLYN”

The Independent Feature Project was started back in 1979 to support independent filmmakers making no-budget films. Over the past 26 years, the IFP had grown into an important institution within the film community, quickly spawning a Los Angeles-based chapter in 1980 and eventually also expanding to Chicago, Seattle and Minneapolis. (There was also a MiamiContinue reading “OH YEAH, THE GOTHAMS. SORRY, I FORGOT (SILLY IFP)”

Since I already have the tribe on my mind today, it seems only natural that this unbeknownst to me news should hit especially powerfully. On Monday I posted at Gothamist about the “Evening with Woody Allen” at Lincoln Center during which Allen would apparently sit for a Q&A and audience members (for between $30-100 aContinue reading “WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE’S JEWISH?!?!?”

The newly renamed Film Independent (formerly IFP/LA, recently split-off from the rest of IFP and decided to show its independence by creating the incredibly stupid acronym FIND — Film INDependent) announced its nominations for the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards today, and while the qualification of movie for consideration as an “independent” film is always aContinue reading “OH YAY! IT’S TIME TO START OBSESSING OVER NOMINEES”

I’ve alluded to my fascination with the subject of movie adaptations before. Whether it’s book-to-screen, stage-to-screen, even video game-to-screen, the very nature of trying to take a premise or story from one medium and successfully translate it to another is one of the most difficult hurdles in filmmaking, and the fact of the matter is,Continue reading “WHEN THE MOVIE IS BETTER THAN THE BOOK: SHOPGIRL“

So this is a bit random, but a friend of mine just IMed me to tell me that he was trying to make plans with a friend for Thursday of this week when she told him that she was going to this lecture: “Jews, Genes and Intelligence”. It carries the subhead: “Fact or Fiction? AshkenaziContinue reading “THE CHOSEN CHOSEN PEOPLE?”

I have no idea why HBO Films never gave Yesterday any sort of real theatrical distribution or why they’ve essentially buried its cable network premiere on a Monday night, post-Thanksgiving. If you have HBO and you’re not sure what you’re doing tonight, stay home and at 9 PM watch this incredibly powerful, moving and intenseContinue reading “AND WE’RE BACK: YESTERDAY IS AS GOOD A REASON AS ANY TO STAY HOME TONIGHT”

We’ll be returning to regularly unscheduled programming any second now, but as I continue to vomit out all my apartment/neighborhood/moving experiences, there’s one other thing I want to share that I haven’t figured out how or where it might otherwise fit. I mentioned it before back in March, in passing. It has to do withContinue reading “ACTS OF CATHARSIS: PART IV — MY INCARCERATED LANDLADY (THE FINAL STORY)”

Neighborhoods and I have strange relationships. Generally, as soon as I leave a ‘hood, everything I wished had been there while living there seems to soon arrive. I moved to New York and lived in the East Village (on E. 3rd St. between 1st & 2nd Aves.) during the height of EV gentrification, before southContinue reading “ACTS OF CATHARSIS: PART III — WELCOME TO BROOKLYN”

So, uhm, this would be the post that I thought I was writing before that last little ditty. I moved to New York in October 1996 in what was probably the luckiest 30-day period of my life. I wrote about this back in March after having left HBO and started work at Tribeca. Until IContinue reading “ACTS OF CATHARSIS: PART II — LEAVING MANHATTAN AND “HOME””