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Los Angeles is a fine town. I lived in its tepid embrace for over seven years, and I have to say it was probably seven of the best film years of my life. I think I saw as many movies in that time span as the occasional film viewer sees in a [...]
I watched [[John Ford]]’s Grapes of Wrath (1940) last night and I have to say it is a masterpiece of the highest order. The film both blew my mind and deeply touched me on so many levels I just can’t sort them all out right now. I’m confused. So, until then, here are a few [...]
On a recent post about [[Clash of the Titans]], Andy Best made a comment I’ve been coming back to over and over again since. The comment was the following:
And by the way, Jim, keep on plugging D&D, that game was solely responsible for getting me to read and develop in the face of school being [...]
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Here at UMW we have been going through a CMS Review. It has been a pretty interesting project, and while I only tangentially involved, I have been following the basic rhetorical thrust of the sales pitches from companies like Desire2Learn, BlackBoard, and Angel (well be getting in-house demos of Sakai and [...]
Last night I saw a coming attraction for the re-make of Prom Night (2008), which seemed so shiny and new compared to the original. In fact, while watching the trailer I found it to be a sign of the times of Hollywood for a couple of reasons: first, it seems an excellent example that the [...]
I have been thinking about certain movies from the 80s that kind of represent this moment in time, regardless of whether they are good or bad. And while movies are, for the most part, dependent on narrative, they also have the ability to capture the space, clothing styles, hairdos, music, and the overall built environment [...]
Fifteen seconds into this clip comes one of my favorite lines from one of the best films of the last century, [[Night of the Hunter]] (1955). The other eight and half minutes is just a bonus 
BEN HARPER: “What religion you profess, preacher?”
HARRY POWELL: “The religion the Almighty and me worked out betwixt us.” [...]
One from the archives for all you fathers out there today. A scene taken from the 1986 classic [[At Close Range]], starring the great [[Sean Penn]], [[Christopher Walken]], and the sorely missed [[Chris Penn]] (his death in 2006 hit me kind of hard ’cause I always imagined my older brother was like Sean Penn, and [...]
I had the great pleasure of re-watching one of my favorite films of all time recently with Shannon during our lunch hour. We saw the The Ultimate Director’s Cut version of [[The Warriors]] (1979) released in 2005, which I had not yet seen —and I must say the digital transfer of the film is [...]
Here is a great scene featuring a preaching teetotaler (Reverend Wainscott) from [[Sam Peckinpah]]’s brilliant [[The Wild Bunch]] —definitely in my top five, maybe top three films of all time.
[youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcRUgwCiy9A[/youtube]
Man I love the way this reverend talks. It is such a melodic, syncopated idiom, almost song-like. I will do a [...]
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