Category: Journal

From Paul Federbush: “Roberta was one of the most passionate and talented professors ever to walk the halls of Tisch Graduate Film. She lived an inspiring life. She learned visual narrative story-telling from her early career as a script supervisor on Elia Kazan’s films ON THE WATERFRONT, BABYDOLL and two of my favorite films, Kazan’s…

Since I’m listening to my “Lifetime Memory Bath” I’ve always meant to get down some thumbnail descriptions of why the music is meaningful to me, the idea being that if I listen to it too much the memory of those original impressions will be lost.  That’s likely to be the effect of having written it…

Many think this is about sums of money or some future strategy down the line etc. And I think it seems to be so for much of the GOP leadership. But for Donald Trump I don’t think this is about overturning an election by any legal process, but an attempt to legitimize a coup, literally….

Watched “Life is Sweet” again last week, overjoyed to find that the Criterion Channel had it (for which I’ve had a subscription now for a year or two, and before that FilmStruck).  Of all Mike Leigh’s films it remains the most moving to me.  In retrospect I can see why it’s so relatable: a dysfunction…

Don’t know why it took me 2 years to watch this. Was a bit out to lunch on Leigh, I guess. It’s strong and memorable in every single way. Leigh continually betters himself, even at the age..75? he must have been when making this in 2018. I guess this story probably germinated for some time,…

Farcical and (likely) failed though the Trump gambit has become, I’m not hearing most news and political commentators explicitly calling this what it is: a plan and strategy of this administration that isn’t merely like totalitarianism, it IS totalitarianism. It’s not like fascism, but IS fascism. Gaslighting with non-stop relentless lies in order to confuse,…