Who said nostalgia ain’t what it used to be? Obviously, someone who hasn’t spent three hours with Lucille Ball and Paul Whiteman in two

“[Bill] Miner and his men, posing as prospectors, fled south on foot, with $17 and a bottle of kidney pills, pursued by a large posse,

Servant: “How do I know what nuns eat!?” The Old General: “Do you see that crate? Sausages. They will eat sausages. Europeans eat sausages wherever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E__AoONUh6g “This is the one. This is the one I’ll be remembered for.”— Ed Wood commenting on his film Plan 9 From Outer Space “Inspector

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKTOzzkT27c&has_verified=1 Creeps or heroes. This is my theory about why there are so few powerful roles for women in Hollywood films. Henry Ford offered the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ6_0KlpK6I   “I had a faint hope that it wasn’t all imagination, dreams, lies.” Tomas the priest in Winter Light Let’s get spiritual. Or rather,

“My life would make a damn good country song.”-D. Fritts “He who controls rhythm/controls”-Charlcs Olson (both quoted in Nick Tosche’s Country) A Woodstock for the

Things are usually fascinating on the border lands. Borders between countries breed strange fusions of languages, twilight and dawn are freighted with metaphor and inklings

“Reservoir (medical): A population which is chronically infested with the causative agent of a disease and can infect other populations.” —from the Oxford English Dictionary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciqg9Ti_psE   Carroll Ballard’s first feature film, The Black Stallion (1979), is a lot like Jane Campion’s more recent The Piano, but without the sex.

“She decided not to take the offered pawn, to leave the tension on the board. She liked it like that. She liked the power of

Do I really want to admit this in public? Perhaps I should give the matter more thought, or find a way to hedge my bets.