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Hi there. Yeah. Here I am. Been gone for a few weeks, I know. It hasn’t been anything deliberate. It’s just been that I’ve been living in this mini-personal Hell, and I guess I’m at one of the lower circles because I’ve had a very hard part getting out. I’ve had plenty to write aboutContinue reading “AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!! (THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TODAY’S GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW)”

At least it should be, and thank god. I’m exhausted. Not as much from covering the festival as from this ongoing painful apartment hunt. So painful that I can’t even talk about it right now. Maybe I’ll write another of those infrequent completely personal posts later. Or maybe not. All I know is I ranContinue reading “MORE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: THE PENULTIMATE POST”

I was supposed to be moving … well … today. That’s not happening. I might be moving next week; I will definitely be moving by the end of October. But either way, all that optimisim (not that there was so much of it) I expressed in my otherwise depressing birthday post pretty much got shotContinue reading “THE WEEK(END) IN PREVIEW (HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL POWELL) & MORE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL”

For a long time I have extolled the virtues of CBS’s The Amazing Race, which had its new season premiere last night. Before anyone jumps on me to say how the show sucks, while I wouldn’t go that far, I found last night’s first episode of this new series which for the first time isContinue reading ““THE BLACK FAMILY” — THEIR TITLE, NOT MINE”

The week has not particularly gotten any better. The apartment search is now running my life because the place that I wanted and thought I had a good chance of getting fell through, so I’m back to square one. Which sucks. A lot. In fact, because of needing to concentrate on finding a home, I’veContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: SEPT. DAY 5 — TERENCE GRAY”

I came home between press screenings because I had to do a phoner for an interview I’m running on Gothamist this Wednesday. Now I have to run back out to the Walter Reade for the afternoon screening. I’m not packed, and in fact, I still don’t have a new apartment. YAY! But I do haveContinue reading “MORE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: NO TIME FOR CHATTER”

So tonight is the beginning of the 43rd New York Film Festival, an annual event that I usually spend hundreds of dollars on, probably needlessly. Thankfully, this year, I don’t really have to because, say it with me, Yay for press screenings. So far I’ve seen eight of the 11 films screened, and I haveContinue reading “SO FAR, SO GOOD: THE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL IS HERE”

Today’s Gothamist Interview is with Warren Leight who just might be my new writer hero. If you don’t know Leight by name, chances are you’ve seen or at least heard of his work. He won a Tony Award for the play Side Man. He has a new play officially opening this weekend called No ForeignersContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: SEPT. DAY 4 — WARREN LEIGHT”

You see, I’m trying to see every New York Film Festival press screening, but having to edit that Christine Vachon interview and then also write this week’s Gothamist Movie Guide, I didn’t get to bed until nearly 4 AM which made the 9 AM screening at the Walter Reade just about impossible. Now sure, IContinue reading “THE WEEK(END) IN PREVIEW: I THINK I’VE OVERCOMMITTED MYSELF”

Simply put, Christine Vachon is one of the most important producers to have come upon the New York independent film scene, and since at least the early ’90s, she and her company Killer Films have consistently put out daring and provocative films. Everybody might now always like all the films to come out of theContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: SEPT. DAY 3 — CHRISTINE VACHON”