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Re: “Nashville Recap: ‘Take These Chains from My Heart’”
Here's Brad Paisley being a total gentleman about boobs: https://twitter.com/BradPaisley/status/329…
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
Dark; Deep; Brooding;Brilliant; A Memory of The Sin! A tale of how many decide that they must flee from all that they love while seeking only freedom from themselves. Powerful end of the rope drama! Raw and identifiable. Thank all for heart directed efforts against all economic odds with this all donated talent collaboration on the proverbable shoestring which successfully drew both nays and praise for this 16mm film on screen effort! Unashamed original artwork displayed in our faces! Touching childhood fears, soaring joys and unbelievable love with it's tenderful grace, we accept or reject our lives in others opinions or as the Hippies said "let it all hang out." Life is not as simple as the Mona Lisa or as deep as Anonymous Irish poetry.
Thank you! We Soared!
Jack Kennedy
if I may! An anonymous Irish poem from another age, timeless in it's inspiration. Enjoy!
"I walked a mile with Pleasure.
She chatted all the way.
But I was none the wiser
For all She had to say!
I walked a mile with Sorrow
And not a word said She,
But Oh!
The things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me."
.....An Anonymous Irish Poem
Re: “This Weekend: Rethinking Prisons Conference at Vanderbilt”
Looks interesting, thanks for heads up.
Re: “Million Dollar Quartet, War Horse Lead 2013-14 TPAC Broadway Series”
Good to hear that Million Dollar Quartet is touring in New Orleans! I loved them always and wanted to see them live so have got Million Dollar Quartet tickets from GoodSeatTickets.com
Re: “Nashville Film Festival 2013: Wednesday's Picks”
I loved 'Magic Camp'! All those precocious kids and eccentric counselors!
Missed 'McCullen' and 'A River Changes Course' but they're on my to-see list. It'll happen.
Re: “Forward and Backward: The Shining at Belcourt / truocleB ta gninihS ehT”
Last night's midnight shows were a madhouse — hundreds in line out front when I arrived. Pretty typical: the person who told me ROOM 237 was a bunch of nonsense, *except for* the stuff about Kubrick faking the moon landing.
Also, I didn't stay for all of it, but the backwards/forwards thing was a lot more interesting than I expected. Really creepy watching those bland early scenes with the superimposition of the deranged Jack.
Re: “Fight the Power: Do the Right Thing with Frank Dobson Saturday at Belcourt”
His endings often kind of trail off, but even in his messiest recent movies, there's always something of interest. Haven't the foggiest clue what to expect from his OLDBOY remake — I thought his direction was pretty much wasted on INSIDE MAN, but still about the only thing of interest in it.
Re: “Fight the Power: Do the Right Thing with Frank Dobson Saturday at Belcourt”
I remember the movie quite well, but I also remember feeling non-plussed about its ending. Spike Lee had the confounding knack of writing and visualizing great set-up premises and narratives for his films, but that initial energy and passion always seemed to drain away into an abrupt and unsatisfactory epilogue. It was as if he spent so much of himself getting those two qualities spilt on the celluloid that he was too drained to then take the proper amount of time needed to decompress and think of a coherent way to wrap up the whole experience.
Still, Hollyweird badly needs, and sorely misses, the man's serious and fresh directorial product between the mid-1980s' up to 'Bambozzled'.
Re: “Fight the Power: Do the Right Thing with Frank Dobson Saturday at Belcourt”
@BenP: Good point about the music. That tension — of evenly matched forces in counterbalance or conflict — runs all the way through the movie: Martin and Malcolm, Mookie and Da Mayor, Love and Hate on Radio Raheem's fists, even in the movie's very last shot.
Re: “Fight the Power: Do the Right Thing with Frank Dobson Saturday at Belcourt”
"Sal, I'm boycottin' your fat pasta ass."
Re: “Fight the Power: Do the Right Thing with Frank Dobson Saturday at Belcourt”
Haw! Love it.
"It ain't never too hot or never too cold for fuckin'!"
Re: “Fight the Power: Do the Right Thing with Frank Dobson Saturday at Belcourt”
"You wanna boycott someone? You ought to start with the goddamn barber that fucked up your head." Robin Harris, you are missed.
Re: “Congratulations, Acklen Post Office — You're One of America's Quirkiest Post Offices”
What's funny about the photos in Acklen is that they started hanging them in the late 80s, stopped a loooong time ago, and most of the people pictured weren't famous THEN.
Re: “Fight the Power: Do the Right Thing with Frank Dobson Saturday at Belcourt”
"Ahmad, your Jordans are DOGGED!"
One of the funniest scenes in a movie ever, a close second to the part with the guys wondering what kind of a woman would name her child 'Sweet Dick Willie', hahaha...I'm also partial to "Where's my High Life? I NEED my High Life!" and "EXTRA CHEESE IS TWO DOLLAS!"
I think this movie is responsible for more of the quoted lines in my canon than even The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or The Big Lebowski...such a classic!
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
So what did you think of the movie?
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
A story about a man who exploits women being directed by a man who exploited his actors and thus turned what could have been a decent tale into just another a poor excuse for gratuitous nudity that will likely be soon forgotten. At least thirty of those I hope to never see again minutes should not have survived the final cut! Wedding’s lack of screenwriting talent and vision, plus careless editing, ruined this film.
Re: “Fight the Power: Do the Right Thing with Frank Dobson Saturday at Belcourt”
That's a vivid, and to me accurate, description of the film, Pink.
Another brilliant aspect of Spike Lee's direction is the use of the Bill Lee score vs the hip hop/New Jack Swing soundtrack, where the music is used diagetically (car radios, for instance, but most critically Radio Raheem's boombox). Spike Lee's use of music is well-known, and to some, annoying, like when he brings the score way up. But to go from the sound of the streets to Bill Lee and Winston Marsalis' jazz score adds to the the powerful tension in the movie.
Re: “Hot Type: Martin Brady on Why The Columnist Matters for Local Theater”
Can't wait — I'm going Tuesday. Alford's great. I've never forgotten the production of A DOLL'S HOUSE that he and Denice Hicks did — it made me completely reevaluate a play I'd always found airless, stodgy and melodramatic.
Re: “Fight the Power: Do the Right Thing with Frank Dobson Saturday at Belcourt”
Great post, Ben P. I saw it at the Hickory Hollow mall cinema, and I've never forgotten the tension in the racially mixed audience: it built up to that famous sequence of characters of various ethnicities spewing slurs directly into the camera, followed by Mister Senor Love Daddy's impassioned appeal to decency. The power of clearing the air has never been felt more forcefully.
I've also never forgotten walking around NYC in summer heat after the movie's release and seeing the movie's T-shirt everywhere, like a badge of solidarity. If anyone reading this thread hasn't seen the film, you're missing one of the great American movies — one you should by all means see with as big an audience as possible.
Re: “Nashville Recap: ‘Take These Chains from My Heart’”
got to be the strangest recap i've ever read. a little more time on the positive and interesting things might have been more entertaining than made-up crap. if you don't like the show, don't watch it - and don't bother trying to "recap" it - because this totally was not a recap.