Sundance 2021 — Part 2
Part of experiencing Sundance only vicariously in previous years was having my curiosity piqued about films being positioned as contender in Academy Awards categories for a ceremony over a year out. It’s blissfully odd to instead actually view and assess … Continue reading Sundance 2021 — Part 2
Sundance 2021 — Part 1
When Steven Soderbergh picked up the first ever Audience Award for a narrative film at the Sundance Film Festival, in 1989, everything changed. Soderbergh’s film, sex, lies, and videotape, went on to be an arthouse sensation, and Sundance was suddenly … Continue reading Sundance 2021 — Part 1
College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #398 to #396
398. Yaz, You and Me Both (1983) If the old adage about books and their covers can be applied to albums, it’s also fair to remember that, as Rod Stewart once sang, every picture tells a story. In the case … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #398 to #396
Outside Reading —The Power to Play edition
An “Angry Mob” On Reddit Is Pushing Up GameStop’s Stock Price And Pissing Off A Bunch Of Wall Street Firms by Amber Jamieson I haven’t been especially attentive to this week’s flashiest business story, the assault on the norms of … Continue reading Outside Reading —The Power to Play edition
This Week’s Model — Jensen McRae, “Immune”
A couple weeks ago, singer-songwriter cracked a good joke on Twitter: Because McRae knew her way around a guitar and a microphone, she followed up the next day with a “preemptive cover” of that imagined song, delivering fifty seconds of … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Jensen McRae, “Immune”
The Art of the Sell — #SleevesUpNOLA
These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art. Bravo, New Orleans. Bravo. Other entries in this series can be found by clicking on the “Art of … Continue reading The Art of the Sell — #SleevesUpNOLA
The New Releases Shelf — Two Saviors
The members of Big Thief have apparently forged a secret pact a couple years ago, agreeing that not too much time would ever pass without at least one of them putting new music out into the universe. They notably delivered … Continue reading The New Releases Shelf — Two Saviors
Greatish Performances #52
#52 — Haley Lu Richardson as Casey in Columbus (Kogonada, 2017) In Columbus, Haley Lu Richardson plays a young woman waiting for her life to start. Intelligent and engaged in the world around her, Casey is about one year out … Continue reading Greatish Performances #52
Then Playing — Crossing Delancey; The Climb; Don’t Let Go
Crossing Delancey (Joan Micklin Silver, 1988). This gentle romantic comedy has the wafting charm of a fable. Isabelle (Amy Irving) is an independent New Yorker with a habit of dabbling with the wrong men. When her grandmother (Reizl Bozyk) enlists … Continue reading Then Playing — Crossing Delancey; The Climb; Don’t Let Go
College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #401 to #399
401. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Rattlesnakes (1984) In the midst of his eventually abandoned studies at Glasgow University, Lloyd Cole formed the band that bore his name. According to him, the original intent of Lloyd Cole and the Emotions … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #401 to #399
