My answers to "PROFESSOR RUSSELL JOHNSON'S 'MY ANCESTORS CAME OVER ON THE MINNOW' THANKSGIVING/
Once again, it's quiz time, as found over at "Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule". Here are my answers with some illustrations. 1) Second-favorite Coen Brothers movie. The Big Lebowski has grown on me, though I didn't like it that much when I first saw it. First for me is O Brother, Where art Thou?. 2) Movie seen only on home format that you would pay to see on the biggest movie screen possible? (Question submitted by Peter Nellhaus) John Woo's full five hour Red Cliff. Not only have I already seen it

SDFF 2009 - Three more films
Applause/Applaus Martin Zandvliet - 2009 Nordisk Film 35mm film Applause is primarily a showcase for actress Paprika Steen. The story of an actress names Thea, the film alternates between her life on stage and off. An alcoholic divorcee, Thea is struggling with sobriety, and proving herself worthy of being with her two elementary school aged sons. The boys live with their father, now married to a psychologist. Thea is currently performing in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfas Martha, the alcoholic wife i

"Tora-San" Collector's Set Volume 1
Tora-San, Our Lovable Tramp/Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo Yoji Yamada - 1969 Tora-San's Cherished Mother/Zoku Otoku Wa Tsurai Yo Yoji Yamada - 1969 Tora-San, His Tender Love/Otoku Wa Tsurai Yo: Futen No Tora Azuma Morisaki - 1970

Coffee Break
Myrna Loy and Una Merkel in Evelyn Prentice (William K. Howard - 1934)

SDFF 2009 - Visionaries: Jonas Mekas And The (Mostly) American Avant-Garde Cinema
The Charles Theater, 193 Avenue B, NYC. Chuck Workman - 2009 Calliope Films For some viewers, Visionaries might serve as an introduction to the film that has been labeled underground, avant-garde, and briefly, New American Cinema. For myself, the film was a kind of trip down memory lane. I had seen several films in the Anthology Film Archives "invisible cinema" designed by Peter Kubelka, where the audience watched movies in chairs, partitioned in such a way that was designed to minimize distraction of other people and fo