January 2010
31 posts
The Fountainhead - a picture essay.
The Fountainhead is an odd movie.
The dialogue is snappy and very quotable (“I wish I had never seen your building. It’s the things that we admire or want that enslave us.”), the photography is stark and full of pretty angles, BUT it is also ridiculously over the top. I know it’s all a big metaphor and that the characters aren’t meant to be so much...
Have been having some anxiety about the April trip to Kiev (to see my dad the rest of my Ukrainian family). I haven’t been back for about two years and the last time I visited my Russian language was frustratingly limited. I couldn’t express many things, felt dependent on hand gestures, pictures and the dictionary, and at the same time was endlessly annoyed when people assumed I...
Talkin’ Like You - Connie Converse
Have...
release party trivia winners announced →
In case you needed a reminder
A reason not to drink Pepsi.
Lynda Ryan sustained serious and possibly permanent injuries to her left eye while opening a defective can of Diet Pepsi.
A reason not to believe commercials...or packaging.
A federal judge signed off on a preliminary settlement of a class action charging Tyson Foods with falsely advertising that its chickens are raised without antibiotics. Tyson agreed to pay up to...
Thank you.
Thank you to everyone who came out to our I Love Bad Movies #2 release party last night. I knew it would be a fun party but I honestly didn’t expect so many of my favorite people to make it. Maybe I just didn’t want to get my hopes up (it was our first event, after all!) but you guys (and girls) really surprised me. Several of you had to postpone your work responsibilities and come...
WatchLemonade - A quiet, subtle short film about a number of people who got laid off (mostly from ad agencies) and are now happier than ever, doing exactly what they wanted to do.
I have a lot of trouble with ‘inspirational’ documentaries but this one is so simple, short and touching that I had to share it with you. Unlike most films of this genre, it doesn’t shout (“Anything...
WatchThe sound design in this ad really grosses me out. I know it’s just fruit COMING OUT OF OTHER FRUIT, but something about the crackling that just makes me think of aliens hatching. That and the pod-person voiceover of “Yoplait -GIIGGLE- It is SO good.”
For the past two days, on and off, I’ve been trying to write about the worst movie I have ever seen (no hyperbole here; the WORST) - Jenny McCarthy’s Dirty Love.
Really, I have no words for how repulsive I found it. I knew it was supposed to be gross (because Jenny is a frat guy in a porn star’s body), but every bit of it is so despicably insulting to women, men, film-making,...
Just found out I missed yesterday’s Film Forum screening of Taking Off with an introduction and Q&A with Milos Forman.
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