writer, film critic, editor...fan of Barbra, Peanuts, and the work of friends
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Here is Adam Zanzie’s marvelous video essay detailing the history of THE OTHER on film. Essential for fans of the book and movie. youtu.be/4j42hIbcVG8
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LAFCA (@LAFilmCritics) has chosen Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego as the co-recipients of this year’s Career Achievement Award, a truly unprecedented and worthy choice(s)!
My mom died yesterday, just shy of her 88th birthday. Here she is about to see the Iris Apfel documentary in 2014 with my brother. We all loved moviegoing. Moma would often check me out of school early to see a matinee. Then shopping at the bookstore. Books and movies and love.
A top-of-the-house bad seat for Cole Escola’s play, OH, MARY! at the Ahmanson Theater next month costs $226 plus $36.90 in fees for a total of $259.60. $260. The play, a riotous dazzler, no doubt, is 80 minutes long.
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PBS has a superb 4-part mini-series, TRESPASSES, based on Louise Kennedy’s novel. Lola Petticrew and Tom Cullen star as lovers in 1975 Belfast. She is Protestant, he is Catholic and their secret affair is sensual and emotionally complex. A brilliant Gillian Anderson co-stars.
Almost a year after its release, REBUILDING, starring Josh O’Connor, is finally available to rent, and for only $5. It is one of O’Connor’s finest performances, and the gentlest of films. It has stayed with me. Written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman.
As Andrew Haigh’s film A LONG WINTER heads into theaters for Oscar season, novelist Colm Tóibín has written a follow up novella, due December 1. Here is a first review.
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David Kittredge’s film doc marvel, BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL is now available for home rental and for only $5.
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In 1986, the New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael wrote that David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet,” starring Kyle MacLachlan and Isabella Rossellini, was “consciously purplish and consciously funny.” On the 40th anniversary of the film, revisit her review: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jJ…
Michael Silverblatt would have loved this Jesse Eisenberg humor column. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
The moving REBUILDING, starring Josh O’Connor, came out last November and can be rented, but has yet to find a streaming deal. The recent OMAHA with its magnificent John Magaro performance—worthy of an awards push—may be in a similar limbo. Good movies fade away all the time.
As a ‘70s kid, I spent many an afternoon at the Doraville, GA Jerry Lewis Twin Cinema, watching horror movies all by myself ("Sssssss"!) and the occasional Disney revival. The theaters were a financial disaster for Jerry and Co. but a big hit with me.
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Billed as a spiritual successor to his iconic Books of Blood, Clive Barker is back with LIBRARY OF THE DEAD, which will feature three books full of brand new terror tales: bloody-disgusting.com/books/…
Thinking of Gena Rowlands on the anniversary of her passing. Included here is the rather singular tribute reel we made when the Los Angeles Film Critics Association @LAFCA gave her the Career Achievement Award. Edited by the brilliant Matt Amato. indiewire.com/news/general-n…
Here is the 1990 Ian Frazier New Yorker humor piece that inspired the imperfect yet marvelous new film, “Coyote vs. Acme,” opening August 28. (Wile E. Coyote vs the motel ceiling fan is worth the price of admission.) Coyote V. Acme | The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/1990/…
“It’s a great American novel of the 20th century’s digital echoes.” Early review of the debut novel by filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun. Due October 27. publishersweekly.com/9780593…
