Cratchmen: Tricky Dick Point Man, Or Rather Blue Balls In Outer Space
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The Billy Crudup Dr. Manhattan Watchmen Interview: Geeking Out On Watchmen Lore And Glow In The Dark Guy Nudity.
CLICK TO READ INTERVIEW HERE
AGORA: Dragged from her chariot by a mob of fanatical vigilante Christian monks, the revered astronomer was stripped naked, skinned to her bones with sharp oyster shells, stoned and burned alive as possibly the first executed witch in history. A kind of purge that was apparently big business back then.
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2/26/09
Watchmen Review
Cratchmen: Tricky Dick Point Man, Or Rather Blue Balls In Outer Space
CLICK TO READ REVIEW HERE
The Billy Crudup Dr. Manhattan Watchmen Interview: Geeking Out On Watchmen Lore And Glow In The Dark Guy Nudity.
CLICK TO READ INTERVIEW HERE
Trouble With Romance: Frisco Mayor's Wife Sells Seat
This unsexy quirky quartet of talky tales, is a mixed bag of fantasy stranger sex in a threesome with Frisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom, so to speak selling her seat no less, wise woman elder elevator existentialism, and all around bad relationship karma.
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2/23/09
Ball Don't Lie
Brin Hill, Director
Writers (WGA):
Matt de la Peña (screenplay) &
Brin Hill (screenplay) ...
This is a quiet tour de force, a film that doesn't awaken you until it reaches its climax and then the lightening rod goes crazy.
Ball Don't Lie is the story of Sticky (Grayson Boucher), a 17 year old white boy who travels from one foster care home to another after suffering the trauma of the premature violent loss of his parental figure.
It is a story of a white boy making it in a black boy world because he has found basketball, a game that he excels at. But with all the bonding on the court, with all the seeming similarity in their life expectancy, the black and white world remain divided. It is this divide so beautifully articulated on the sands of Venice California beach(by the brilliant actor Harold Perrineau of the TV series Lost) that brings this film into notoriety and extraordinary excellence.
This is a film that uses real people, not just seasoned actors, and real places and even though in the main it feels like a trite, redo of a redo, by the end of the film you feel elevated to another plane of understanding of the world in which we live.
No small feat.
Linda Z
WBAI Women's Collective
Writers (WGA):
Matt de la Peña (screenplay) &
Brin Hill (screenplay) ...
This is a quiet tour de force, a film that doesn't awaken you until it reaches its climax and then the lightening rod goes crazy.
Ball Don't Lie is the story of Sticky (Grayson Boucher), a 17 year old white boy who travels from one foster care home to another after suffering the trauma of the premature violent loss of his parental figure.
It is a story of a white boy making it in a black boy world because he has found basketball, a game that he excels at. But with all the bonding on the court, with all the seeming similarity in their life expectancy, the black and white world remain divided. It is this divide so beautifully articulated on the sands of Venice California beach(by the brilliant actor Harold Perrineau of the TV series Lost) that brings this film into notoriety and extraordinary excellence.
This is a film that uses real people, not just seasoned actors, and real places and even though in the main it feels like a trite, redo of a redo, by the end of the film you feel elevated to another plane of understanding of the world in which we live.
No small feat.
Linda Z
WBAI Women's Collective
The Flash Of Red: Hot Pink Pen Final Word On Oscar Swindle
Declare Victory & Move On
FEMALE CO-DIRECTOR SIGHTING IN A SEA OF MALE TUXES: PASS THE BINOCULARS
By Jan Lisa Huttner
You’ll just have to trust me on this, my friends: that “flash of red” you saw when the SLUMDOG team ran up on the stage last night to collect the Oscar for Best Picture? That was Loveleen Tandan! I’m not a “what if” kinda gal. Once something is in the past there’s no way to “go back,” So why bother?
We will never know how SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE would have fared (either critically or commercially) without Loveleen Tandan in the “co-director” role. Similarly we will never know if she would have been at the Oscar Ceremony last night if I hadn’t been sitting here in Chicago these last few months making such a fuss with “my SLUMDOG Brouhaha.”
For all of you who still doubt my motives, accusing me of risking damage to her career for the sake of my own causes (or worse, simple self-aggrandizement), all I can say is this: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE will forever be known now as an Oscar-winning Best Picture, & Loveleen Tandan was part of the team that flew to Hollywood to help claim the prize. More people know her name now than knew it a few months ago, & more people are aware of Hollywood’s abysmal stats re female filmmakers than ever before. So I’m ready to “Declare Victory & Move On.”
I have a screening of SUNSHINE CLEANING in 2 hours (directed by Christine Jeffs, written by Megan Holley, & starring Amy Adams, Alan Arkin & Emily Blunt), so I live in hope! Bye now J
I'll be celebrating the 2nd annual International SWAN Day on Saturday, March 28, 2009! Read all about it at: www.SwanDay.org
http://www.thehotpinkpen.com/?p=855
Jan Lisa Huttner
JUF News/Fund for Women Artists
Women Film Critics Circle
www.films42.com
www.TheHotPinkPen.com
FEMALE CO-DIRECTOR SIGHTING IN A SEA OF MALE TUXES: PASS THE BINOCULARSBy Jan Lisa Huttner
You’ll just have to trust me on this, my friends: that “flash of red” you saw when the SLUMDOG team ran up on the stage last night to collect the Oscar for Best Picture? That was Loveleen Tandan! I’m not a “what if” kinda gal. Once something is in the past there’s no way to “go back,” So why bother?
We will never know how SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE would have fared (either critically or commercially) without Loveleen Tandan in the “co-director” role. Similarly we will never know if she would have been at the Oscar Ceremony last night if I hadn’t been sitting here in Chicago these last few months making such a fuss with “my SLUMDOG Brouhaha.”
For all of you who still doubt my motives, accusing me of risking damage to her career for the sake of my own causes (or worse, simple self-aggrandizement), all I can say is this: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE will forever be known now as an Oscar-winning Best Picture, & Loveleen Tandan was part of the team that flew to Hollywood to help claim the prize. More people know her name now than knew it a few months ago, & more people are aware of Hollywood’s abysmal stats re female filmmakers than ever before. So I’m ready to “Declare Victory & Move On.”
I have a screening of SUNSHINE CLEANING in 2 hours (directed by Christine Jeffs, written by Megan Holley, & starring Amy Adams, Alan Arkin & Emily Blunt), so I live in hope! Bye now J
I'll be celebrating the 2nd annual International SWAN Day on Saturday, March 28, 2009! Read all about it at: www.SwanDay.org
http://www.thehotpinkpen.com/?p=855
Jan Lisa Huttner
JUF News/Fund for Women Artists
Women Film Critics Circle
www.films42.com
www.TheHotPinkPen.com
Sexual Politics Of The Oscars: No Statues For Women, They *Are* The Women
By Linda Z
BEYONCE 'BOUND' FOR THE OSCARS
did you see it on TV
did you sit through hour after hour of men running up to the palatial stage, aglitter in crystal, and circles and mobile podiums interspersed with Blackberry phone costly advertisement that scared me more than a horror flick because it showed that even hiding in a skinny school locker, the Blackberry will "out" you into the watchful eyes of those you tried desperately to avoid, affirming: Big Brother is here!
did you see the women on the red carpet cat walk, listen to the interviews and realize that every dress was the same dress, the same slender lined or over full balloon in which no woman could make a swift get-a-way.
and the Monstrous
elevated bosom pushed into and out of the too tight cloth like the bound feet of young girls; painful, unnecessary restrictive. and if maintained might contribute to Cancer in the future and pain in the afterglow of the Hollywood parade
did you see all those black suited men with the one exception out of thousands being Mickey Rourke, (oh why didn't he get the best actor award?). And did you see Madame Meryl of film? Could you miss her?
Like the Queen sitting center stage, her daughter by her side hiding behind her mother's enlarged frame. They watched the unfolding of the male bash of heroes honoring themselves. Was there really no women's protest?
no protests except a lone clap of support for "Waltz with Bazir", one lone voice heard in protest of Israeli's atrocities echoed by millions, billions, hopefully trillions of on lookers who watched/listened in silence.
I watched,
if only to know that men should not design women's clothes and women need to find their voice, even in the conspicuous consumption of extravaganza and dearth of political consciousness displayed at the 81st Academy Awards.
p.s. the only honestly humorous moment was when the porters of the awards, porting the briefcase of winners names came on the carpet. All they needed to look more like the Blues Brothers than the Blues Brothers was the sunglasses. Even their walk was a delight to see. Next year, of course, they will offer the job to their female employees, if there are any.
Linda Z
WBAI Women's Collective
BEYONCE 'BOUND' FOR THE OSCARS
did you see it on TV
did you sit through hour after hour of men running up to the palatial stage, aglitter in crystal, and circles and mobile podiums interspersed with Blackberry phone costly advertisement that scared me more than a horror flick because it showed that even hiding in a skinny school locker, the Blackberry will "out" you into the watchful eyes of those you tried desperately to avoid, affirming: Big Brother is here!
did you see the women on the red carpet cat walk, listen to the interviews and realize that every dress was the same dress, the same slender lined or over full balloon in which no woman could make a swift get-a-way.
and the Monstrous
elevated bosom pushed into and out of the too tight cloth like the bound feet of young girls; painful, unnecessary restrictive. and if maintained might contribute to Cancer in the future and pain in the afterglow of the Hollywood parade
did you see all those black suited men with the one exception out of thousands being Mickey Rourke, (oh why didn't he get the best actor award?). And did you see Madame Meryl of film? Could you miss her?
Like the Queen sitting center stage, her daughter by her side hiding behind her mother's enlarged frame. They watched the unfolding of the male bash of heroes honoring themselves. Was there really no women's protest?
no protests except a lone clap of support for "Waltz with Bazir", one lone voice heard in protest of Israeli's atrocities echoed by millions, billions, hopefully trillions of on lookers who watched/listened in silence.
I watched,
if only to know that men should not design women's clothes and women need to find their voice, even in the conspicuous consumption of extravaganza and dearth of political consciousness displayed at the 81st Academy Awards.
p.s. the only honestly humorous moment was when the porters of the awards, porting the briefcase of winners names came on the carpet. All they needed to look more like the Blues Brothers than the Blues Brothers was the sunglasses. Even their walk was a delight to see. Next year, of course, they will offer the job to their female employees, if there are any.
Linda Z
WBAI Women's Collective
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