View image A festive Casa Emerson just before the storm... UPDATE: Um, OK, where were we? Within hours of retrieving my PowerBook from its brain-transplant surgery (the new brain/HD is blank, or mostly blank: It did say "Abby Normal" on…
From Jonathan Pacheco, Anna, TX: When the release of "Eyes Wide Shut" drew near, a lot of the buzz was around it being a "sex film," and some (fools) went as far as to claim that its ambition was to…
Lost treasures of Xanadu -- in a Pennsylvania warehouse? For five years now, one of the great film resources in America has been unjustly imprisoned, boxed up and sitting in the corridors of a film storage facility in Hamlin, Pennsylvania.…
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Andy Horbal's Film Criticism Blog-a-Thon -- the center of the movie criticism universe this weekend. This is another contribution to Andy Horbal's Film Criticism Blog-a-Thon at No More Marriages!, a blog which is itself devoted to the subject of film…
John Fitzgerald Kennedy's early cameo appearance in "Nashville," at Lady Pearl's Old Time Picking Parlor. Please consider this my initial contribution to Andy Horbal's Film Criticism Blog-a-Thon -- happening all weekend at No More Marriages! View image Inside Pearl's Parlor:…
View image Establishing shot: The first image of Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece, "Tokyo Story." Ozu tends to begin with a series of static shots (say, three to five) that set the location and mood. David Bordwell (recently returned from Easter Island!),…
"Man Push Cart." Full list of nominees here. I haven't seen all the nominees ("The Dead Girl," "American Gun," "Wristcutters: A Love Story," etc.), but, as always, there are some most welcome nominations. (Links below go to my reviews, festival…
"Nashville" 25th reunion. (photo by Jim Emerson) When the doctor says you're through Keep a'goin! Why, he's a human just like you -- Keep a'goin! -- Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson) in "Nashville" View image 24 of your favorite stars. Give…
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