Thursday, October 17, 2019
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Long Journey Back.
Historic NY tragedy that led to a moving 1978 Made-For-TV movie. True story ARTICLE LINK:
(CLICK PLAY above! Rare Movie is on YouTube)
Long Journey Back |Rare | Drama | TV Movie 15 December 1978
Director: Mel Damski
Writers: Audrey Davis Levin (teleplay), Judith Ramsey (article)
Stars: Mike Connors, Cloris Leachman, Stephanie Zimbalist
This film was made for TV by ABC. It was the most uplifting films this day and defines excellence in film making. Based on the bus-train crash that took place in Nyack ,New York that left some students permanently injured and impaired for life. The film is about recovery and perseverance. To this day this film is hard to watch. It is a beautiful, and very simple, film with real power. This fact-based drama is about a high school teenager's courageous fights after a school bus accident leaves her emotionally and physically handicapped. Stephanie Zimbalist (star of "Remington Steele") gives an outstanding performance as young Celia, the teenager who is the focus of the story. Wonderful performances are also given by Cloris Leachman (as her mother), Mike Connors (as her father) and Katy Kurtzman (as her younger sister).
I visited the accident site and met with one of the actual firefighters 'on the scene' at the time and he guided me to the Congerts Memorial Park that the locals created in memory for the victims called, 'Congers Lake Memorial Park'. At the time of the accident there were NO train warning lights or rails, and the trees and bushes made it clear to understand how the bus driver was unable to see the proximity of the oncoming train.
The overall story of the TV movie is how this family comes to cope with and get through a very tragic situation. It is very believable, touching and, by the end, extremely uplifting. I would recommend this movie to everyone!
bye.
bye.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Monday, October 14, 2019
The 'Fake News' Meme Talking Point Generation
Interesting that this has become newsworthy on the eve of tomorrow's scheduled 'democratic? ' debate on CNN. hmmmmmmmm, smells fishy to me. The video has actually been around for over a year. Betcha this video will be a topic of discussion tomorrow, as the debaters are preparing to sharpen their tongue blades. Sign of the times ('times', not NY Times ), there is no such thing as this type of a coincidence. And honestly, admit it ... the video is pretty halarious(sic).
#desperatemove
#lookslikeFortnitetome
#evenAlectellsmeheslovin'it
bye.
#lookslikeFortnitetome
#evenAlectellsmeheslovin'it
bye.
Last Days . by Gus Van Sant .
A mediation on sadness, desire, and lack of direction, LAST DAYS seems almost to stretch out its minutes. Its rhythms are deliberate, its images lyrical ( courtesy of superb cinematographer Harris Savides - RIP ), its mood alternately somber and droll. While the film moves slowly, its subject is strangely urgent, for you know from the start that this is Gus Van's Sant's interpretation of Kurt Cobain's suicide. And so you know that the vulnerable, mumbling protagonist will soon be dead. It's only a matter of time. And yet the film is less depressing than quietly romantic, more emotionally elusive than morally judgmental. For some viewers, this approach to the legendary Cobain will be frustrating, even boring.That is, its lack of plot and lovely long takes and gently mobile frames reflect the subject's internal state, as he is increasingly dislocated from what appears a generic "rock musician's" existence. bye.
Sunday, October 13, 2019
Saturday, October 12, 2019
The rad dharma that IS Errol Morris
Errol's new film covering Steve Bannon is a lib power keg, even having had NYFF pull it from their 2019 festival line up! Errol hilariously told them to F themselves and that he'd find his film distribution on his own without their help. Errol rules. Errol is great and a true radical interview film artist.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Spoken Word - Brooklyn, NYC.
Poster/Stills/trailer for, The Garbage People
shot on location at Coney Island, NYC.
WOW
This Minneapolis Trump rally tonight is off the chains!!! Holy Coyote. This rally is phonetically marinating the raw meat that will be defining our next election 2020 - which is gonna make 2016 look like perfunctory child’s play. The gloves are off. If Hillary is preparing for a re-match - I'm ordering the popcorn by the truckload!
#WheresHunter?
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Civility and Contemporary Politics 101
Will the networks now call for Ellen's impeachment ? iPhone 11 is the known 'whistleblower'. Look out Apple- you may be next.
#sourapples
#MACINTOSH
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Monday, October 7, 2019
On a remote island, a troubled artist (Max von Sydow) feels his mind slipping away from him. Troubled by disturbing visions and paranoid delusions, he and his wife (Liv Ullmann) begin to suspect that the haunting memories are the machinations of a bizarre cult that reside on the other side of the island. The leader of this group (Erland Josephson) may hold the key to the artist's delusions.
directed by dead Faro Kingpin - Ingmar Bergman
CBS is on point.
Jeff Daniels has been cast to play James Comey in an upcoming CBS studios mini-series. Wait a sec, isn’t he the guy who starred in all of the ‘Dumb and Dumber’ movies? You know, the ones he made with Jim Carrey who stared in the, ‘Liar, Liar’ movie. If anything, CBS has a good casting rep. Bye.
P.S. so when is Hillary planning to make her 3rd run announcement? I predict shortly after this month’s scheduled debate. She’s just sitting back, sippin’ on a glass of Rielsing, and watching them chomp a few more bites out of one another until she makes her declaration. Watch. bye again.
The importance of coffee.
While not much remains of the original coffee house, the regular live music, beer and jubilant atmosphere keep those Joplin memories alive. The pub is open most days from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Head out for a pint, and while you're there, take a moment to recall her rendition of "Bourgeois Blues." bye.
Sunday, October 6, 2019
rip Ginger Baker
Not sure how the hell you reached 80, but you will never be forgotten and ya played your drum kit till your last dying breath. Rock on, up there in the skies and raise holy hell & high water. bye.
#oneandonly
#drummer4life
#drummer4life
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Derivative wake.
The newly released Todd Haynes film 'Joker' is a derivative work memorializing (and blatantly ripping off) 70's graffiti NYC location films, and the once upon a time hyped anti-hero atmosphere that Hollywood once cashed in on (i.e. Death Wish, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Mean Streets, The King Of New York, Taxi Driver). Despite this film being an ode to gritty indie 70's 'movies', the emphasized character study of 'Fleck' aka 'Joker' oddly ends up being an unintended brilliant work of eulogy. Joaquin will get nominated for this performance. And, he may win and deserves all accolades. What is most fascinating about this forever interpreted villain icon in this particular rendition is that what Joaquin did was not kin or remotely close to Heath Ledger's timeless performance/interpretation- except for the smeared make-up and long hair. The film Todd Haynes has made with this Joker movie is the best thing that he's done since his early work fresh outta NYU film school- the documentary 'Hated' (about the late G.G.Allin). The film comes at a perfect time for the upcoming 2020 election and the desire for our next voting herd to take down fake news media and political promises that will be made and should be kept. We get what we deserve.
bye.
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Clint Eastwood takes on Fake News in December!
Clint got inspired to make this film and tell this story on screen after reading this article in in Vanity Fair ...
#ripRichardJewell
the deconstruction of a diy film installation
'Missing Green' DIY installation, based on my 11 min. award-winning short film.
exhibition locale: BWAC, Brooklyn Warehouse
materials used: miniature 60's style-model analog television monitor, VHS player, 8x10 slide photos, mono-headphones, feeble two-pronged speaker stand, textured concrete spray paint
post-show afterword: all materials dismantled & disposed of inside of street dumpster to be delivered to the Fresh Kills estuary (Trash Mountains), Staten Island
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Kleber at #NYFF
This crazy film is simply a relief for debilitating cinema and a true surprising 'experience' of the communal surreal. blew me totally away. Brazilian cinema is having their moment, for certain. bye.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
kino unleashed: 'Bucurau'
Kleber Mendonça Filho's new film 'BUCURAU' (after Aquarious) is about a vibrant, backcountry Brazilian town that finds its sun-dappled day-to-day disturbed when its inhabitants become targets of a group of armed mercenaries. The perpetrators of this class warfare, however, may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau. This film is a shape-shifter of exhilaration of witnessing society's forgotten and marginalized standing up for themselves by any means necessary. With references to the genre works of John Carpenter, George Miller and Sergio Leone. Winner of Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Holler! bye.
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