birdsong

at anthology starting tomorrow through next tuesday, with an "experimental making-of" screening on saturday and sunday.

jokes for nerds

here

street fighter II?

with street fighter: the legend of chun li coming soon, I fondly remembered fourth grade and the star-studded first adaptation of what was really not a very interesting video game. the jean claude van damme line "now, who wants to go home and who wants to go with ME!" triggers something deep in my subconscious.

RIP raul julia.

moral implication

disturbing transcript of grand jury testimony in the roman polanski rape case. he spent time as a child in a nazi concentration camp, his pregnant wife was murdered by the manson family, and then he raped a 13 year old girl in jack nicholson's house -- can we watch his movies without bringing this all to bear? can we and should we judge his movies objectively, whatever that means? should we avoid his movies and deny him praise? what of chinatown, rosemary's baby, the pianist, etc?

UPDATE: weird! geimer has come out in polanski's defense before but it always sounded to me like she just wanted to get the press off her back -- still, it's very strange.

clint on vocals

this shit was nominated for a golden globe!

depressing

I'm in flagstaff, AZ, and I looked up movie theaters, when I went to second theater's webpage I saw this.

I wish they would both just disappear

but leave apollo 13 (I cry every time). ron howard and deborah solomon here.