arts
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Garry Trudeau @ St. Paul’s School
We found an early comic by Garry Trudeau that was created in high school and published in the school newspaper The Pelican around 1965. They also have a painting done by him hanging in the school house.
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You’re Watching Movies Wrong (and why I don’t go to the movies with other people.)
Here’s my Ted Talk on You’re Watching Movies Wrong. I did this as a joke for a Powerpoint Party. But I do agree strongly with the general assertions. Happy watching
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Our Lady of the Assassins
Reviewed by Eric WolframViewed at the San Francisco International Film Festival Country: Colombia/FranceYear: 2000Run Time: 98 minutesCast: Germán Jaramillo, AndersonBallesteros, Juan David Restrepo,Manuel BusquetsProducer: Jaime Osorio Gómez,Barbet Schroeder, MargaretMenegozEditor: Elsa VásquezCinematographer: Rodrigo LalindeScreenwriter: Fernando Vallejo A self indulgent Colombian story, written from the heart of Fernando Vallejo, Our Lady of the Assassins is a fairly…
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The Luzhin Defense
Reviewed by Eric WolframViewed at the San Francisco International Film Festival Directed by Marleen GorrisCountry: EnglandYear: 2000Run Time: 106 minutesCast: John Turturro, Emily Watson,Geraldine James, Stuart Wilson,Christopher ThompsonProducer: Jody PattonEditor: Michael ReichweinCinematographer: Bernard LuticScreenwriter: Peter Berry Emily Watson reestablishes her ineffable charm in this 1920’s epic love story between a quarky grand master chess champion and…
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Reviewed by Eric WolframViewed at the San Francisco International Film Festival Country: USAYear: 2000Run Time: 95 minutesCast: John Cameron Mitchell,Andrea Martin, Michael Pitt,Miriam ShorProducer: Christine Vachon,Katie Roumel, Pamela KofflerEditor: Andrew MarcusCinematographer:Frank DeMarcoScreenwriter: John C. Mitchell Hedwig is a rock operetta, a stroll down camp street, and a journey into love. It manages to be a…
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Face
Reviewed by Eric WolframViewed at the San Francisco International Film Festival Directed by Junji Sakamoto Country: JapanYear: 1999Run Time: 123 minutes Cast: Naomi Fujiyama, MichiyoOhkusu, Etsushi Toyokawa Producer: Yukiko ShiiEditor: Toshihide FukanoCinematographer: NorimichiKasamatsuScreenwriter: Junji Sakamoto,Isamu Uno Face is an unusual crime story featuring an ordinary full bodied recluse as the unlikely hero. I ended up loving her, a criminal who brutally killed her sister, and…
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The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Reviewed by Eric WolframViewed at the San Francisco International Film Festival Directed by George Butler In an act of astonishing foresight, Sir Ernest Shackleton hired a gifted photographer and cinematographer to accompany his now legendary antarctic expedition of 1914 — a stunning tale of survival. And only because this photographer, at one point, choose to dive…
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The Circle
Reviewed by Eric WolframViewed at the San Francisco International Film Festival Country: Iran/ItalyYear: 2000Run Time: 91 minutesDirected by Jafar Panahi Cast: Fereshteh Sadir Orafai, Maryam Parvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, Elham Saboktakin, Monir Arab, Fatem Producer: Jafar PanahiEditor: Jafar PanahiCinematographer: Bahram BadakhshaniScreenwriter: Kambozia Partovi The Circle highlights one after another Iranian woman. Each tugs against the various sexist snares which are placed on them by their…
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Brief Encounters
Reviewed by Eric Wolfram.Viewed at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Country: USSRYear: 1967Run Time: 96 minutesCast: Vladimir Vysotsky, Kira Muratova, Nina RuslanovaProducer: Odessa Film StudioEditor: Olga CharkovaCinematographer: Gennadi KariukScreenwriter: Kira Muratova, Leonid Zhukhovitsky Brief Encounters is a time capsule, a magic eye into the river of passions tumbling beneath the bland grey bureaucratic city life of 1960’s era Russia. It tells stories of…
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The Land of Wandering Souls
Reviewed by Eric Wolfram. Viewed at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Country: FranceYear: 1999Run Time: 99 minutesProducer: Cati CouteauEditor: Marie-Christine Rougerie,Isabelle RoudyCinematographer: Prum MesarScreenwriter: Rithy PanhDirected by Rithy Panh All my concerns — gas prices, energy, Bush, war, emissions — seemed trivial, after watching Land of the Wandering Souls, a film about a group of poor Cambodians who dig ditches to lay…