Roger Ebert ranked Juno as the best film of 2007, beating out No Country for Old Men on the strength of the former's emotional evocation. I am happy to say that I agree. In other news, and briefly, I am in Massachusetts, having arrived yesterday morning. The thick layers of snow are melting away in [...]
Much as I presented the NY Times list of top books from 2007, here is the Onion AV Club's Year in Film 2007. I am only somewhat sad to say that I have seen one film of their top ten: No Country for Old Men. Of those remaining, the films most appealing to me are [...]
I will go years and years, decades even, without having thought of a song and then suddenly it will pop back into my head. This song will be a bad song, something outside the realm of any reasonable musical taste, and often from the 80s or early 90s. I will listen to it once, and [...]
Arnie, Charlie, Megan, Deirdre, Sarah and I watched, played and sang this last night so many times, and loudly and late enough, that the downstairs neighbors started banging on their ceiling/our floor for us to shut up. A slightly tipsy young woman in our party may or may not have stamped on the floor in [...]
Check out Hotel Chevalier (iTunes link), the short film prequel to Wes Anderson's upcoming The Darjeeling Limited. The free short features Jason Schwartzman, Natalie Portman, and some nudity.
Sigur Rós is releasing a documentary film of Iceland, their homeland, and the free concerts they performed there in 2006 and 2007. The film, Heima, has a trailer here and press release here. After traveling the film festival circuit this fall, Heima will be released in November as a DVD accompanied by an entirely new [...]
No, just the US Postal Service. Has anyone else glanced at this stamp on a letter and thought it was Frank, from Donnie Darko? So it's just me that's crazy? Good to know.
