I’ve gone and done that dummy move again, where I see something amazing, mean to write about, start a draft, then forget about it. By the time I post these things, they have faded, or I can’t find the right …
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Behr came to visit a few weeks ago, and her last day here coincided with the opening of SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival). We decided to do a super movie day which involved watching a movie in the morning, having …
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We watched a spectacular documentary/dance film earlier this week: Dancing Dreams (2010) shows 40 teens learning and performing a dance piece under the supervision of Pina Bausch and two of her principal dancers. The kids have never danced …
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This was a pretty fantastic movie. It could maybe have been just mediocre and I still would have enjoyed it owing to the following facts:
1) I was really, really in the mood to escape into another world for 2 …
This movie, I mean, wow. I’m not even sure I can really write much of a post about it. I’d rather you just immediately drop this computer (on a soft, padded surface) and go pick up a copy of the …
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I’m feeling a little overwhelmed, so I talk about movies instead of real life, but I get kind of agitated about it. I’m sure there’s a psychological term for this.
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I’m still letting my Vacation Roundup post percolate – what I can say is that I watched a lot of movies, read a lot of books, and ate a lot of food during the last 2 weeks.
Eating: Italian Food.…
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I tried to watch all of the original Grey Gardens a few weeks ago, but couldn’t get through it. I thought maybe there was something wrong with me – this was supposed to be one of those seminal, amazing, cult-audience-having …
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I haven’t seen any comments on my posts in awhile, which can mean a few things:
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It’s May, which means just one thing to many Seattleites: the Seattle International Film Festival!
Sky and I didn’t get into the swing of things until late in the festival last year, so this year we tried to get …
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My favorite movie watching experiences usually start with Sky saying “There’s a movie playing across the street that starts in 5 minutes, want to go?”
When I know about a movie – the theme, the actors, the setting – I …
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It was too loud, too brash, too violent, and I loved it. Click on the on the movie’s title to read more!
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