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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””

Sometimes, I just need to find a form of catharsis. I keep happening across all these film and TV related stories upon which I want to comment; I’ve seen several films in the past two weeks; and I’ve got plenty jostling around this addled brain o’ mine; but for some reason, I haven’t been ableContinue reading “ACTS OF CATHARSIS: PART I — WHY I WRITE … OR DON’T”

Uhm … hi. Yeah, not sure what happened there other than the fact that my slow, lots of free time week turned out to be not so much slow or containing lots of free time. It wasn’t crazy hectic either; but there weren’t log periods where I said to myself, “Hey, Aaron, let’s sit downContinue reading “REALLY PLAYING CATCH-UP”

Today I sit at a reception desk. It is my first temp job in I don’t know how many years, and it’s very temporary. Just today and tomorrow. Doing very little. In fact, after I complete the four or five incredibly simple tasks (of course, don’t those always unexpectedly take the most time), I shouldContinue reading “PLAYING CATCH-UP”

Or I’m just being optimistic. It happens! But I’m not sure. I could try to say that I’ve been missing all week because I’ve been morning that Arrested Development news, but that would be a lie. I’m trying to focus this weekend on getting a few personal posts that I feel somewhat compelled to writeContinue reading “THE WEEK(END) IN PREVIEW: I THINK I’M COMING OUT OF MY SLUMP”