First Offenders (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Just a couple of hours from now I'll be heading to the train station, bound for Baltimore and Bouchercon. I'm trying to finish packing, find my invite to the Penguin party on Saturday so I know where to go, fold...
Backseat driving (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
I agree. It's a bagatelle, but enjoyable. The message I took away -- that Americans are too much like Preston Sturges characters to be trusted with a giant national security establishment -- was similar to yours, but more partisan.
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
O Brother, What a Soundtrack By Marilyn Ferdinand I know that everyone's talking about the new Coen Brothers's film Burn After Reading. I've kind of been ignoring the Coens for the past seven or eight years, so if that...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
George Clooney is such a savvy, old school Hollywood star that even the movies he makes that don't quite work just seem to add to...
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
The Great McGinty , Preston Sturges' directorial debut and one of my personal favorites from his all-too-brief filmography, was on TCM the other night and I caught it from about the middle on. This is one of the great rags to riches to rags stories -- a domestic/political farce with real heart, and great performances, especially from lead Brian Donlevy and "antagonist" Akim Tamiroff (character actors...
scanners (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Everything I know about economics I learned from the movies. (Collected knowledge after the jump.) So when times get tough, I consult Preston Sturges. Here, I have condensed the financial wisdom of a lifetime into less than five minutes...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
T he Coen brothers are fabulously talented filmmakers, but for my money, they come a cropper whenever they veer into the crazy- or extreme-comedy territory of Preston Sturges. Movies like Intolerable Cruelty and today's premiere, Burn After Reading , yearn to echo the homicidal laughter of Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours or the sprawling knockabout farce of The Palm Beach Story , but they just don't make...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
“..It took only a few days for the saga of Sarah Palin to go from Frank Capra to Preston Sturges to Judd Apatow.. ..and then for the farce to stop being funny at all. These are not the times for right-wing screwball. The world is aflame and we have been pondering the knocked-up daughter of a [...]
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic Published: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 It took only a few days for the saga of Sarah Palin to go from Frank Capra to Preston Sturges to Judd Apatow, and then for the farce to stop being funny at all. These are not the times for right-wing screwball. The world is aflame and we have been pondering the knocked-up daughter of a pert and uncannily confident Alaskan mediocrity...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Baltimore's fall 2008 arts scene encompasses a little bit of everything, from the cutting-edge plays of Theatre Project to the melodic sounds of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
David Thomson: David Gordon Green made stylish, searching films in defiance of Hollywood methods. Then he teamed up with Seth Rogen - and had a hit
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Let's be honest about what we saw: a woman who was thrust into the presidential race in a farce worthy of Preston Sturges, reciting a speech written by Matthew Scully, faking as hard as she could fake, and lying as fast as she could lie. You can be certain that wherever he goes, and whoever is listening, John McCain is the same man. This is the John McCain who grumbled about how much he hates immigration...
Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Celebrated and influential film critic Manny Farber died yesterday at the age of 91. At Movie City Indie Ray Pride has a lovely, well-linked remembrance, which opens like this: Manny Farber, painter, brilliant writer, indelible critic and all-round original whom some aped and few grazed, died in his sleep last night at the age of 91. He had retired from writing and teacher and devoted himself
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Manny Farber , a brilliant writer and indelibe critic whom some aped and few bruised, died in his sleep last night at the age of 91 . He had retired from writing and teacher and devoted himself to painting and drawing. To cite Barbara Stanwyck in "The Lady Eve," which early Preston Sturges savant Farber would likely not frown upon, "What a life!" Some links below, including a sweet, brief nod from...
newyorkshitty.com (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
After last weekend’s hommage I would like to go on the record and state that I had absolutely nothing to do with this (image to the left)*. For the full (funny and sort of creepy) story point and click your way over to Lost City. Miss Heather Photo Credit: Lost City *Among other things, I won’t go anywhere [...]
