Finally got around to watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s Sydney or Hard Eight as the studio promoted it.
It’s a quiet little noir story that takes place in Las Vegas, Reno and on the road to Niagara Falls. Philip Baker Hall carries the movie as Sydney, with a solid performance by John C. Reilly […]
While watching the nightly news (not something I normally do), I caught a quick glimpse of Ted Kennedy stumping on the campaign (presumably for Kerry) and yelling “Are you glad to see me?”.
I might have misheard him, but I was definitly not glad to see him. I don’t care if he is […]
Just stumbled across this a few days late - TV’s ‘Captain Kangaroo,’ Bob Keeshan, dead.
I used to watch this show when I was growing up in the seventies. Not sure if that was a good thing.
I haven’t read them in a long time (so I don’t know if they fit the profile in terms of all westerns being gay westerns), but for those looking for an interesting and classic western comic/sequential art, you should try Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean “Moebius” Giraud’s Lieutenant Blueberry.
Wallow seems to be an “it” word of the moment. I have been hearing it a lot at work and now I see it on Slate:
It’s quite a wallow, this book, and perceptive as far as it goes: Biskind does a service to the artists whose work has been a casualty of the […]
I had dinner with a co-worker, the preeminent Tony Chor, at Cafe Juanita in Kirkland, Washington. It is located behind a newly renovated strip mall. I am sure I would have never found it without Tony.
As for the food and booze - excellent on both fronts. I particularly liked the […]
Patty (my wife) and I watched Tim Burton’s Big Fish the other night. Overall, I liked it, but I was not blown away by it and I do not think that of this as Burton’s best movie. I have a soft spot for Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice and Sleepy Hollow.
To […]
I followed up The Hired Hand with The Searchers, considered by many to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, western of all time. Now I enjoyed the movie, I am not sure I would call it the greatest western of all time. Its combination of comedy and drama […]
Did some outlet mall shopping in North Bend today. I bought some shoes. Mountains looked particularly wild and wintery.
Finally got around to watching Peter Fonda’s early 70s western The Hired Hand. Typical of the time in terms of American cinema feeling out the influence of European style, it is interestingly shot (one scene is a montage of the same layered over itself to be like looking through a window), squarely focused on character, […]
