I’m guesting on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes
I join hosts RogerBW and Nick Marsh to talk about the 1984 Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas. (Plus, announcing a related new section here at the site.)
Wim Wenders
The Salt of the Earth documentary review: photographing the human condition
“Everyone should see these images to see how terrible our species is.” Yet there is hope in this portrait of photographer Sebastião Salgado, too.
The Artist will have a good night (and other Oscar predictions)
Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for tomorrow night’s Academy Awards…
question of the day: What actors who should be working (or working more) make you wonder, Hey, whatever happened to them?
I was flipping around the TV last night and came across a rerun of Bones, which is a show that I usually never watch, but I left this episode on because Loren Dean was in it. (He has an infrequently recurring role as Bones’ brother.) It seemed like, in the late 1990s, that he was … more…
DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
President Obama may have us all feeling more confident that the collapse of civilization because of credit swap defaults — instead of the way-cooler zombie apocalypse or ape uprising The Movies had promised us — has been headed off for the moment, but that don’t mean a penny saved ain’t still a penny saved. And … more…
