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Wow. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. We all knew he was sick, and obviously gravely so since I can’t imagine him otherwise stopping work. Still, when I saw the news online tonight that Peter Jennings had succumbed to cancer, it still came to me as a bit of a shock. I don’t have anyContinue reading “R.I.P. PETER”

indieWIRE’s Eugene Hernandez dealt with this issue on his blog on Wednesday, but as I look at what’s opening this weekend, I have to also ask, what’s with the ridiculous number of movies, and potentially interesting ones at that, coming out every single weekend in August. I suppose it’s because August is usually a slightlyContinue reading “THE WEEKEND IN PREVIEW: I’M HAVING TROUBLE GETTING MY HEAD AROUND IT ALL”

So I went to a couple movies around the corner at the Loews 84th Street tonight, and when I walked out of the theater at about 12:25 AM, look what was sitting on the sidewalk: Apparently there was a 12:01 AM showing, and the Upper West Side must have been considered ripe fodder for crazyContinue reading “IT SEEMS A BIT OUT OF PLACE ON THE UPPER WEST SIDE”

I was sitting around prepping for my weekly weekend preview post (hey this will be the third in a row: that makes it a “weekly”!) when I noticed something odd about a certain film that is opening on Friday … sort of. Generally, limited releases open in at least New York and/or LA before slowlyContinue reading “WHEREFORE ART THOU CHUMSCRUBBER?”

Well, Raoul Walsh has actually been dead for 25 years, but Peter Bogdanovich and Museum of Moving Image film curator David Schwartz will be on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show today during the 1 PM hour — educated guess says probably at 1:20 PM specifically at 1:07 PM — to discuss the late great filmmaker andContinue reading “RADIO ALERT: RAOUL WALSH ON LEONARD LOPATE”

I’ve been meaning to mention this since Monday, but I thought I’d give the channel a second viewing before tearing into it. I’m talking about Current TV, of course, the Al Gore backed new cable channel created for a new generation of media watchers. You know, those of us with low attention spans, who wantContinue reading “IF THIS IS WHAT’S CURRENT, NO WONDER I FEEL NOSTALGIC”

I woke up this morning just in time to catch the cast of the pending film version of Rent perform two numbers on Today. Unintentionally, I should say. A friend had IMed me to let me know they’d be on, I’m sure because I’ve already expressed my certain love for this adaptation and the film’sContinue reading “CHRIS COLUMBUS IS OBVIOUSLY BOOKING AND DIRECTING THEIR LIVE APPEARANCES TOO”

Oops, my bad. It’s August, and that means TCM brings us “Summer Under the Stars” — their 31 day tribute to many of the greatest movie stars in history. Every 24 hours features films from a different great actor or actress, and just as I did last year, I thought I’d highlight some of theContinue reading “TCM’S SUMMER UNDER THE STARS 2005 EDITION: 31 DAYS, 31 STARS — 30 SUGGESTIONS (SORT OF)”

Somehow, I actually forgot to mention something about Last Days in my post below, namely having to do with the film title. There are no credits to the movie until the very end, and when the title card shows up it reads “Gus Van Sant’s Last Days.” I haven’t seen this really mentioned anywhere, andContinue reading “SOMEHOW, I FORGOT: WHOSE LAST DAYS ARE WE WATCHING”

You see what’s happening here? I’m trying to force myself into structure. Now in case you’re wondering, this never works. It’s all about habits, right, and sometimes I stick to them and they become hard to break; other times I stick to them but before to long, they become easy to break and then it’sContinue reading “THE WEEK(END) IN REVIEW AND MY MID-YEAR UPDATE: STILL IN AWE OF MR. NOLAN; LAUGHING AT WEDDINGS AND ARISTOCRATS; VAN SANT COMES INTO FOCUS?”