Reading: The Three Mustangers (1933)

The Three Mustangers, by Will James. Here’s the opening paragraph. If this was made into a movie, you could just hear Wilford Brimley doing the voice-over narration: “Andy Thomas would of most likely been a plain average and just a hard-riding cowboy if he’d been brought up where such kind of men rode. There was

Watching: The Passenger (1975)

The Passenger, 1975, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Definitely a film-school must-see, if only for the dolly-shot ending. The camera starts in a hotel room looking out the window into a courtyard, and by the end of the scene the camera has moved through the barred window and into the courtyard, and turned around again to

watching: Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler On the Roof (1971) is one of those films I never got around to seeing until now. People always say, “How can you not have seen X and Y film, when you like films so much?” but really, Hollywood is going to have produced 100 years of film soon, and how in the world

Posh

Bless youtube for someone already doing the work for me in isolating this clip. What a wonderful world. If this song doesn’t get you singing, you just have no soul. I can’t imagine a better song ever being sung from so discreet an outhouse. From Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, of course, which I brought up

Watching

Currently watching: “Dexter”, season two. Does any show get better in season two? Does any show out-do season one? This one does! My informal personal quality test for purchasing things to watch is pretty simple: does it have characters who have adventures I would like to have? Are those characters likeable and good role models in

“Slings and Arrows” (2003)

“Slings and Arrows” (2003). We’ve been watching the little-known television  series, Slings & Arrows. It ran 2003-2005, but each season had only 6 episodes. 6 well developed, funny, smart, and over much too soon episodes.  The action revolves around the staging of a theatrical play, each season a different play, and the characters are fully