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For Elmore Leonard 21 Aug 2013 | 03:33 am
Elmore Leonard did a reading at the Brattle Theatre at the end of the 90s when I was the operations manager there. The Harvard Book Store would rent the space when they anticipated a big turnout for ...
Sunday reading 19 Aug 2013 | 07:25 am
A moment of passage into adulthood occurred for me upon the purchase, charged to a MasterCard not billed to my mom and dad, of a piece of consumer electronics. It was a Panasonic VHS deck from a Nobod...
Visual pleasure and narrative, cinema 14 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
By “gorgeousness,” I mean not only her face—its echo of every blonde siren the cinema has ever known—but her singing voice’s matter-of-factness, combining fatigue and rancor and nervous energy, like J...
More light reading 31 Jul 2013 | 06:12 am
Get More: NextMovie.com: More Videos | Trailers | Movie News | New on DVD & Blu-Ray But forget about positioning and context for a second. I think there are a couple of specific reasons why Raide...
S[um]merville cinematheque 23 Jul 2013 | 08:03 pm
The cinetrix is housesitting for a pal and enjoying the giddy urban summerime delights of biking, multiple restaurant options, old friends, porch drinking, live music, and, natch, movies. Some on 35mm...
Nostalgia + the light 11 Jul 2013 | 07:51 pm
barbed and galvanized [via] With scripts, there’s a constant process of writing things that are very literal and having characters say what’s about to come next—which you want to avoid—and then parin...
Pads, Paws, and Claws 28 Jun 2013 | 10:13 pm
The Studio System: The Big Five and Little Three (circa 1927 - 1954) [via] "Real tough guys don't need guns, they just need a positive, can-do attitude" [via] Each method produces a distinctly style...
Welles en abîme 27 Jun 2013 | 08:42 pm
This clip fascinates me. It's a package surrounding a void, itself packaged around the Janus faces of Welles - cinematic boy wonder and garrolous late-night raconteur and pitchman - a tragicomic way t...
Museum hours 27 Jun 2013 | 05:38 pm
Please keep the following information in mind as you plan your visit. Visitors should be aware that this is a dark installation featuring falling water. It is possible that you may get slightly wet. ...
Welles Welles Welles 27 Jun 2013 | 03:20 am
Two sequences Brody chooses to discuss in this clip about Welles' visual imagination have long stuck in my craw/reminded me of the influence that Welles's then-recent radio broadcasting past had on hi...
