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Jean-Luc Godard

1 You’ve got to be a boomer (or older!) to know who this guy is. Maybe youngsters have heard the name, maybe those ensconced in college level film studies are aware of his work, but Godard is definitely in the rearview mirror. Dying of assisted suicide, he was a man out of time. How to […]

Bob Rafelson

He was a stalwart of the counterculture. Earlier today I read an article about Haley Kiyoko. It was in the “New York Times”: https://nyti.ms/3zray37 I realized instantly it was hype, that it only existed because a publicist had pitched a story related to Kiyoko’s new record, but it was brief and I wanted to catch […]

Language Lessons

Trailer (but don’t watch it): https://bit.ly/3OFxpNN I don’t have conversations like that anymore. I don’t think anybody my age has conversations like that anymore. Growing up is weird. Because you don’t realize you’re doing it. Oh, you’re eager, to hit double digits, to be a teenager, to have your twenty first birthday, to graduate from […]

A Book And A Movie

THE LATECOMER https://amzn.to/3u1Id02 This book is so good… That I don’t want to tell you a single thing about it. Now it’s fiction. So for those looking for instructions, the tome of a billionaire, this is not where you want to go. And if you’re looking for mystery, or macho, this is not a genre […]