by Minter Dial | Aug 12, 2007 | Entertainment
Caught “Simon,” this powerful, provocative Dutch film on our favorite ARTE channel today. Featuring noone I knew, and with a delightfully well-written dialogue, this 2004 film by Eddy Terstall dares to treat the final days of a reprobate drug dealer who...
by Minter Dial | Aug 8, 2007 | Entertainment
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.”
by Minter Dial | Aug 8, 2007 | Entertainment
The New York Observer gave a half page last week to the apparent revival of a close-to-the-brow (“neat and naughty” says the article) haircut made famous by Jane Fonda in the 1971 film Klute, by Alan Pakula. Headlining with Donald Sutherland, Fonda won an...
by Minter Dial | Aug 8, 2007 | Entertainment
This year is the 50th anniversary for Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” As I discovered in crawling some blogs, Kerouac had pretensions on French aristocratic lineage, although apparently his name is Breton. I don’t know about you, but...
by Minter Dial | Aug 4, 2007 | Entertainment
Without doubt, for lovers of 1960s music, Festival Express is one of the greatest newly revealed treasures of that era (although this event actually took place in the summer of 1970). The documentary film, which was released in 2004 (wikipedia link), is about a series...
by Minter Dial | Jul 24, 2007 | Entertainment, WWII
Hats off (if not off with the cuffs). This is, if it is to be believed (and it’s amateur enough to be believable), a great demonstration of how to work a crowd of rowdy male inmates [at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) in the...