February 2012
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Sterling Hallard Bright Drake Premieres Today!
Today is the day of the official world premiere of Sterling Hallard Bright Drake at Cinequest in San Jose, California! We can’t wait to get there! All screenings are at the Camera 12 Cinemas Downtown. Our screening times are as follows:
February 29th @ 9:00 PM March 1st @...
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Dear Mr. Hazanavicius . . .
Dear Mr. Hazanavicius,
While I thought it was cool that you thanked Billy Wilder in your acceptance speech for winning the Best Director Oscar for your work on The Artist, I just have to ask: You do know he’s best known for writing dialogue, right? Just checking.
Sincerely,
Johnny Case
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Cinequest : Film Festival : SHORTS PROGRAM 2: OVER... →
Next up for Sterling Hallard Bright Drake is the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose. Cinematographer/Editor extraordinaire Zack Ellenbogen will be in attendance at all three screenings and I’ll be there for the latter two. We can’t wait! All screenings will be at the Camera 12 Cinemas Downtown:
February 29 @ 9:30 PM
March 1 @ 10:00 PM
March 3 @ 4:00 PM
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Somebody up there likes me . . .
Last fall my friend Bob Byington came to Bedford Falls University and screened his deservedly much adored film Harmony and Me. At the time he was deep in post on his new film, Somebody Up There Likes Me, which is making its highly anticipated premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in March as part of the Narrative Showcase. I am dying to see the finished product, but in the...
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Sterling Hallard Bright Drake at the 34th Big...
Sterling Hallard Bright Drake plays at the The 34th Annual Big Muddy Film Festival in Carbondale, Illinois tonight at 10:30 PM in the Big Muddy Independent Media Center. What a great festival of which to be a part; man, we so wish we were there to see all those great films and meet the other filmmakers!
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“Shopping is also cyclical. The menstrual cycle determines every choice a woman...”
– The Office’s Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson), from “Tallahassee,” episode 815. As I’ve previously noted, The Office has been absolutely terrible all year and then out of nowhere comes “Tallahassee,” easily a top 10 all time episode, and this came on a night when 30...
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Where have you gone, Richard Widmark?
As I once mentioned in a long ago post, I’m obsessed with films noir from their major cycle (roughly 1944-1958) during the Classical Hollywood era. I’ve seen hundreds of them and I’m always watching more. I might not ever see all of the thousand or more that were likely made, but it won’t be for lack of effort As part of that process,...
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In which the worm turns . . .
It’s staying light out until almost 6 PM. The dark daytime skies of the NW aren’t quite as low to the ground and heavy on the soul as they were just a week ago. It’s still cold, but it’s not that bone chilling moist air that you can’t get away from. There are tight buds ready to burst on the Dogwoods in my yard and just yesterday I saw the first green fronds of...
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A Manhattan Adventure....
The other night I got into a fight with a server at a posh new local bar. Well, not really a fight, because I’m unceasingly civil and polite, but it was clearly a disagreement. I was there at happy hour, during which all mixed drinks are $6 instead of the normal $11 (which is usurious in a town like Bedford Falls). I ordered an Old Overholt Manhattan. Or three. Mother’s...
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“There’s a big upside, but I have a stable job right now. I have three...”
– Modern Family’s Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell), contemplating the risks that come with starting an independent real estate company. Episode 3.8, “After the Fire.”
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Sterling Hallard Bright Drake plays today...
Sterling Bright Hallard Drake will be playing today at 2:30 PM as part of the “Around the World” doc block at the Dam Short Film Festival at the historic Boulder Theatre in Boulder City, NV. Let’s just say I’d rather be there than here in the hellish gray of the great NW, but my day job prevented it in this instance. If you’re in the Vegas area, you should...
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Expo ‘74, the Spokane World’s Fair:
F. Scott Fitzgerald wasn’t referring to America when he coined the phrase “some sort of epic grandeur,” but it certainly applies. Even as the country is arguably deep into the decline phase of its reign as the planet’s last great singular superpower, for many folks around the world the idea of America still exerts an...
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The Artist . . .
I just don’t get the critical adoration. There are a couple of great scenes at the start, including the meet-cute of the leads, who have fantastic chemistry, and then there’s a lovely final scene. In between the beginning and end the leads mostly aren’t together, nothing much happens, and there’s an unconscionable amount of George Valentin’s (Jean Dujardin)...
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