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Author Archives: Todd Hunter Starkweather
Television Recommendation: Svengoolie
Television and cinema have much in common: namely the moving image. A good portion of these respective technologies’ histories are bound together in a sometimes uneasy symbiosis. Cinema is regarded as the higher form of art, the more glamorous image. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Napier, Death Rides a Horse, Dr. Cyclops, Hugh Beaumont, Svengoolie, The Deadly Mantis, The Mole People
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Clint Eastwood, Hollywood, and Conservatives
In case you missed it, Clint Eastwood talked to a chair. The chair was empty. Presumably, Eastwood knew that, but he decided to have a conversation with it anyway. Now, To be fair to both the empty chair and Eastwood’s … Continue reading
Five Film Favorites: Music
The idea of this post came to me as I was driving home one day and the new Jimmy Cliff single, “One More,” played over the radio. The single, life Cliff himself, is amazing, and listening to it made me … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Cox, Anne Hathaway, Debra Winger, Ennio Morricone, Gary Oldman, Italian Westerns, Jimmy Cliff, Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married, Robyn Hitchcock, Sergio Leone, Sid and Nancy, Storefront Hitchcock, The Dark Knight Rises, The Harder They Come, Toots and the Maytals, Two Mules for Sister Sara
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Five Film Favorites: Films I have seen with my children
The overwhelming majority of films that I now see in theatres are, for lack of a better term, children’s films: films made for and marketed to those younger than twelve. While these experiences have saddled me with a boatload of … Continue reading
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Quick Canada Day Recommendation: Films by Sarah Polley
Last Canada Day, I recommended Sarah Polley’s brilliant Away From Her (2006), a remarkable and emotionally draining film based on an Alice Munro short story, “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” This Canada Day, I recommend seeing any film by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Munro, Away From Her, Luke Kirby, Michelle Williams, Rick Perry, Sarah Polley, Seth Rogen, Take This Waltz
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Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Recommendation: The Queen
Even though I am a bit of an Anglophile, I still cannot get jazzed up over Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee. Maybe I rebel against the fact that most of the English-speaking world seems to be reveling in her reign in the … Continue reading
Five (Not So) Film Favorites: Actors Who Try Too Hard
The idea for this piece came from the tail end of conversation between radio host Bob Edwards and Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten. For whatever reason, the final few minutes of their hour-long conversation turned to the acting abilities, or … Continue reading
Really Great Film Recommendation: Nowhere in Africa
For sometime now, I have desired to write about and recommend director Caroline Link’s fantastic Nowhere in Africa (2001). The right opportunity has just never seemed to present itself. I do not know if mid-April 2012 is the right opportunity, … Continue reading
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Tagged Caroline Link, Juliane Kohler, Karoline Eckertz, Lea Kurka, Merab Ninidze, Nowhere in Africa
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Five Film Favorites: Female Action Leads (Heroes and Villains)
Much of the press and publicity surrounding the release of the now box office sensation The Hunger Games (2012) focused on the fact that the film (and the franchise that is sure to follow) has, as its lead, a young … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Alien: Resurrection, Anthony Hopkins, Cate Blanchett, Hanna, Jackie Brown, Jodie Foster, Johnny Guitar, Mercedes McCambridge, Nicholas Ray, Pam Grier, Robert Forster, Saoirse Ronan, Sigourney Weaver, The Hunger Games, The Silence of the Lambs
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