Monthly Archives: March 2014
Dallas Film Society. 9 Mar 2014.
I rec’d this from a friend that’s on the Dallas Film Society Board. She read the first 40 pages of a screenplay that I’ve been working on and, evidently, liked it. It’s very gratifying getting responses like these. There are a lot of evenings and weekends rolled up into writing one of these things. I’dContinue reading “Dallas Film Society. 9 Mar 2014.”
Things. 8 Mar 2014.
Amanda Shires. 8 Mar 2014.
I’m working on my script and taking a little break. A little break. Well, stalling. But Amanda Shires is great, so I detoured here. I like the backline. The camera works is nice too. Cutting around a fixed camera position. Like the frame too. Seems to tell the story. And you thought there was nothingContinue reading “Amanda Shires. 8 Mar 2014.”
Peter Doig. 8 Mar 2014.
Whom does he admire among contemporaries? “Difficult to say,” he offers diplomatically. Too few or too many? “Too few, I hate to say it. I am very open-minded but most biennales I find totally uninteresting.” Most of the works in Tate Britain’s show of contemporary painters this winter “looked like paintings made at a desk.Continue reading “Peter Doig. 8 Mar 2014.”
Eliz Shue. 8 Mar 2014.
What’s not to love? It’s Elizabeth Shue.
NAB. 8 Mar 2014.
Dans Paris. 8 Mar 2014.
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French. 7 Mar 2014.
Wes Anderson. 7 Mar 2014.
You are flung shipwrecked on a desert island. You are not thirsty (there’s a fresh water spring), but you are frantic with hunger. You have a cooking pot and fire materials, but no food. Then a crate marked “Eggs” floats miraculously into view. You seize it, rip it open, only to find not a dozenContinue reading “Wes Anderson. 7 Mar 2014.”