“It may sound like an extremely obvious thing to say, but I think it is worth saying nevertheless that when you are making a film, in addition to any higher purpose you may have in […]
Category: movies
Very occasional quote of the day: movies
“[T]here is so much to love in movies besides great moviemaking.” – Pauline Kael, Movie Love Kael was a movie reviewer for the New Yorker magazine through the 70s and 80s. I think most of […]
Art Blakey: Jazz Messenger
Just came across this, quite an amazing documentary about Art Blakey, where they talk to Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter, Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller, many others. I haven’t gotten all the way through it yet. […]
Wagner in Apocalypse Now
Fascinating piece by Walter Murch, film editor and sound designer on the movie Apocalypse Now, several other Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas films of the 70s, and a lot of other things. Murch tells […]
Gordon Willis 1931-2014
Still from Manhattan, by Gordon Willis When thinking of an era in the arts where there’s a strong zeitgeist, I always feel that there a large field of people working within a style, doing this […]
Oh, I don’t know…
Probable dialogue: “Come on, swing, you mother— SWIIIIIING! YEAH! YEAAAH!” So, I hear the big hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Whiplash, a movie about the tumultuous relationship of an abusive, hard-driving jazz […]