Please, Mr. Broderick
Say yes to the nice Twist & Shout people. Friday, the Village Halloween Parade, you and Cameron and that skinny girlfriend and a really beautiful car. Or really, just you….
Category Archives: Film
So do you have a cookbook there, Mrs. Muir?
Who knows why The Ghost and Mrs. Muir ended up on my Netflix list — I must have realized that I’d seen the TV version but never the film original….
To Miriam Cooper
Today I read Dark Lady of the Silents, the autobiography of actress Miriam Cooper. She starred in two of D.W. Griffith’s biggest films, possibly two of the most important films…
Post-Apocaylptic Pittsburgh
The good news: Viggo is coming. The bad news: he’s coming to film The Road. The producers filming Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer prizewinning The Road decided that Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania…
Screens and snow
That’s the view from my office this morning. Snow. Just a flurry, but snow nonetheless. If you have concerns about the film adaptation of Love in the Time of Cholera,…
Oscar winners for whom I’ve made coffee
Forest Whitaker, Best Actor, The Last King of Scotland Tim Robbins, Best Supporting Actor, Mystic River
MFA meets Hollywood
I don’t know Stephanie Lord, but she’s an MFA student here at Pitt. This fall she won a Don and Gee Nicholls Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
That’s the way to white trash it, baby
The brilliant Jason Toney puts up "officially the whitest thing I’ve ever posted" on his blog, Negro Please, and it is so excellent I’m teary-eyed. Kelly Clarkson clambers on stage…
Cinespia on NPR!
In LA, people watch old movies at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the final resting place of Rudolph Valentino and more. It’s been happening for 5 years under the banner of…
Mysteries of the Mysteries of Pittsburgh
As noted by Bookslut and Largehearted Boy, Friday there’s an open casting call for the movie version of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Here, in, of all places, Pittsburgh, where they…
