daily stream: a progressive voice from a century ago, back from the memory-hole
2017’s The Lost City of Z is on Prime in the US, Netflix in the UK.
Amelia Earhart
The Lost City of Z movie review: archaeology was his religion
An adventure of the intellect and of the heart with the real-life explorer who inspired Indiana Jones, one more about the journey than the destination.
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia documentary review: repeating history
A hugely entertaining biography of one of the great observers of the American century whose witty, bitter obstinance offers essential criticism of the U.S.
question of the day: What little-known stories from where you live would make a great movie?
Adventure! Romance! Espionage! Nazis! Can you imagine how cool a movie about Amy Johnson could be? She was Amelia Earhart meets Indiana Jones.
October 23: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you were planning to fly around the globe this weekend. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Amelia this weekend?” … more…
Amelia (review)
This *Amelia* is a quiet, reflective film, and Earhart is not an icon or a symbol: she’s a human being, and the fantasy comes in how the film depicts her life and her achievements and everything about her not as something a *woman* did but something a *person* did.
caption this! image from ‘Amelia’
Fun for Wednesdays! We look at an image from an upcoming movie and write snarky, witty, or otherwise entertaining captions for it. No prizes, it’s just for fun. Oh man, am I looking foward to this one. Ewan McGregor and Christopher Eccleston? I’d be flying, too: Fox Searchlight tells us about the flick: Amelia stars … more…
trailer break: ‘Amelia’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I mentioned the fact that this trailer had debuted in my “The Week in Women” column on Friday, because it’s gonna be (I hope, pretty please) an important film about a woman who hasn’t gotten anywhere near the treatment in movies that she deserves, and probably would … more…
May 22: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We all know how it is. You’d like to get out to see a new movie this weekend, but you fear leaving your underground bunker will draw the attention of the machines. But you can have something close to that multiplex experience at home with the proper application of rental DVDs. In fact, you might … more…
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (review)
A morass of Three Stooges-level slapstick and juvenile-style playground taunting…
