Author Archives: James Parrish
For the Salt of the Earth
There are lots of great films one could pick as a way to mark Labor Day, but the one that came to mind immediately, in part because it’s in the public domain and available in its entirety via the Internet … Continue reading
My Pilgrimage to “The Nick”
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting The Nickelodeon, aka “The Nick,” South Carolina’s Nonprofit Cinema since 1979. This is a trip I’d been wanting to make ever since I met executive director Larry Hembree, aka “Butch” (you’ll have … Continue reading
Five Film Favorites: Foreign Films
As you know from last week, F.T. Rea has handed off his Five Film Favorites column. For the foreseeable future, we’re inviting a different person each week to offer their list of five favorites. The beauty of the Five Film … Continue reading
Lonely Are the Brave?
Is it a coincidence that the other night I finally watched “Lonely Are the Brave,” one of the films recommended by F.T. Rea in his Five Film Favorites: Westerns, and the next day I got an email from Terry sharing … Continue reading
Film as a Subversive Art, or Why You Should Not Miss Crispin Glover
The past few days I’ve been thinking a lot about the James River Film Society’s upcoming Crispin Glover show. Not because of all the details, like picking him up from the airport (which we did this evening), getting him fed … Continue reading
What’s wrong with you people?! An interview with Jim Stramel
WARNING: Like Jim Stramel’s newest film, this post is NOT RATED. It contains foul language, tattoo violence … and ass bleeding. No one under 17 admitted. “What’s wrong with you people?!” is what one of the victims in Jim Stramel’s … Continue reading
Richmond Home Movie Day a (Small Gauge) Success
The James River Film Society’s Home Movie Day 2010 event (held at the Richmond Public Library-Main Branch) wasn’t overrun by people bringing their home movies like we were in 2005 and 2006 but the people who came brought beautiful little … Continue reading
Diamonds in a Shoe Box: Home Movie Day returns to Richmond
It’s been a few years since the James River Film Society (formerly Richmond Moving Image Co-op) hosted a Home Movie Day event, but come this Saturday that oversight will be about as memorable as the flickers of darkness between the … Continue reading
Celia Maysles’ “Wild Blue Yonder” on DVD
As as followup to my September 1 post about the U.S. TV premier of 2010 James River Film Festival guest Celia Maysles’ film Wild Blue Yonder — and in case you missed both the JRFF screening and the TV viewing … Continue reading
2010 James River Film Festival guest Celia Maysles gets U.S. TV premiere for her film “Wild Blue Yonder”
This just in from our friends Henry Corra (a New York City-based filmmaker who grew up in Richmond) and Celia Maysles (a guest during the 17th James River Film Festival, March 19-25, 2010) of Corra Films … WILD BLUE YONDER, a … Continue reading
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