Category: film

• Titles For The Ever-Expanding I Know What You Did Last Summer Franchise

  Jul 18

  I Know What You Did Summer Before Last I Know What You Did A Couple Of Summers Ago I Know What You Did That One Summer Long Ago I Know… more ›

• Best of Art 2021

  May 8

  Even though we balked at spending yet more time online, we ended up taking part in at least 43 art events, both in-person and virtually, in 2021. Here are the… more ›

• A Year in Art

  Feb 5

  For the past few years I’ve tracked all the art events that my partner and I attend together. We are avid supporters of the arts. All of them. In 2020,… more ›

• SX11

  May 6

  Out of the 39 entries available from the SXSW 2020 Film Festival on Prime Video, I’ve watched 23 so far. Free access ends tonight, and I plan to catch as… more ›

• A Year in the Arts

  Dec 27

  We have been ardent supporters of the arts since our undergraduate days. Last year around this time, a colleague at TheaterJones wrote about seeing over 100 shows, mostly theater, I… more ›

• Opening(s): An Education

  Dec 16

  When Salvador Dalí was asked about Fred Halstead’s fisting classic L.A. Plays Itself showing at MoMA, he is said to have exclaimed, “New information for me.” If, like Dalí, fisting… more ›

• Three Gems

  Aug 9

  Here are three literary gems that I’ve enjoyed immensely over the past few weeks: two slender books and a slender 80-minute film. But don’t let their size fool you. These… more ›

• A Star Is Born

  Oct 17

  Watched the new A Star Is Born this past weekend after watching the earlier three versions over the past few months. There are some things the 2018 version gets right.… more ›

• Angela Davis

  Jul 8

  When ostensibly asked if she supported violence while she was in jail, Angela Davis not only explained violence, but she related its origin: the violent state. Any violence perpetrated by… more ›

• Frankie Says See This Film

  Jun 24

  Third film viewed at the fourth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival was dir. Brendan Toller’s Danny Says–a documentary about journalist-cum-punk prophet Danny Fields, who is credited with introducing Jim Morrison… more ›