Lots of broken patterns this time. This week’s post comes “early”: I’ve fallen into a Saturday posting rhythm, but it’s only Thursday, and I’m back at it. And the content isn’t some dusty old conference paper unearthed from back in the day, but a (Zoom) talk I gave just yesterday …
My friend and (many years ago) former student, Wendy Adams, was kind enough to invite me to give a talk as part of the International Film Series that she runs at the College of Central Florida. And this seems like as good as anywhere to share what I had to …
Freshly online at Jump Cut, a reprint — with additional images — of an essay by Heather Ashley Hayes and myself on Django Unchained. PDF of the original essay can be found here.
That should probably be “The filmmaker, not the film” or “The screenwriter, not the script,” but somehow neither of those has the same ring to them. Anywho, a good friend posted a query to Facebook asking for people to name their favorite holiday movies. I chimed in with a joke …
You can find a brief explanation of “Rerun Sunday” here. The post below originally appeared on 10 Feb 2007. [Possible mild spoilers ahead, depending on just how sensitive you are to these things.] Just came home from seeing The Departed at the glorious second-run theatre around the corner. And it …