Spitball Army

My dear wife,

You get something twisted out of your insides by all this blood, filth, and noise.

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Is this darkness in you, too?

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Members of the black community protested that any film version of the Uncle Remus stories was bound to portray black Americans in a servile and negative way. A “vicious piece of hocus pocus,” one group called it.

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Trained In, a 2007 documentary short by Kevin Garrison and Allison Stagg.

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He is twice guilty who regrets not an unworthy act. – Ling Po

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One of the interactive elements of the Museum’s website is an area where you can learn, step by step, how Warhol designed his trademark silkscreen portraits. You are then given the opportunity to make one yourself, using some pre-selected photographs as your raw material.

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Steve Carell utters one of the most ridiculous lines in a movie ever in Dan in Real Life: “This corn is like an angel.” Out of context, it’s even more ridiculous, but I laughed out loud at the moment in the film when he lets it rip.

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Scott Hicks, who directed the film Shine (about pianist David Helfgott), has spent the last few years creating a documentary portrait of composer Philip Glass. It has just begun appearing on the film festival circuit. If the promise shown in this trailer for the film is any indication, the movie will be wonderful. Sidewalk Film Festival, are you listening?

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Then, at the curtain call, the singers came out individually and the Met audience clapped their approval, measurable by the loudness of their clapping. The audience here did the same. How odd that was, as if they were trying to communicate their admiration for the performance to the shadows on the screen.

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This afternoon I trekked to the cinema to see There Will Be Blood, and must say that I don’t recall ever seeing a performance so flamboyant and scenery-chewing, yet so absolutely incredibly human, as Daniel Day Lewis in the role of Daniel Plainview. Imagine Orson Welles (as Charles Foster Kane) and James Dean (as Jett Rink) being channeled by John Huston and you will have an idea of what to expect – if you’ve seen the movie, you’ll know what I’m getting at.

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