Sometime last year, I caught this documentary on cable. I didn't have high hopes for it. The very title, Live Forever, an allusion to an Oasis song, probably meant that it would use the Gallagher brothers as its focal point, and there's not much room for other artists when Noel and Liam's egos are involved. That part went as expected, but the ( Read more... )

The couple that had breakfast with us was older, but not too old. They weren't the soft, aged retirees that one sometimes sees in bed & breakfasts, having blown in to celebrate the 10th year anniversary of a friend's restaurant in Williamstown, had gone to bed at 3AM the night before on the tail end of an all-night bender and were looking to ( Read more... )

Last night, I took a break from soundtrack work to get up and kill off the remaining bottle of merlot that had been sitting in our kitchen. Home stretch -- ten minutes of film left to work on, and I figured that I could tempt tipsiness. I walked back to the living room and saw the laptop surrounded by stacks of CDs, the scattered paper notes, and ( Read more... )

I remember seeing a brief blurb for Control Room in a schedule for the Harvard Film Archives last month, and had my interest piqued. A documentary on al-Jazeera's coverage of the Iraq war, Control Room was pitched as this counterbalance to the image popularized in America of a biased pulpit for terrorist sympathizers. I wanted to go see it but ( Read more... )

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A light rainstorm settled into town on Friday night. The drops felt like a cold sigh on my face, and I would've enjoyed it if not for the fact that the rain on my glasses caused light to refract in many interesting and dangerous ways. Headlights burst like brilliant kaleidoscopes, obscuring the road in front of me, and darkness was a muddled, ( Read more... )

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Earlier this summer, I was sitting in with rojagato in a half crowded theatre to see the debut of the MFA's kung-fu retrospective, Heroic Grace. One of the selling points for opening night was the live DJ soundtrack for the silent films Red Knight-Errant and Swordswoman of Huangjing. Hunger got the better of us after the first film, and as we bailed and ( Read more... )

It was two weeks ago that I watched Better Luck Tomorrow with Mr.DevilsAdvocate, fulfilling our cultural obligation to see the film and support more opportunities for Asian American film actors. There's been a certain amount of controversy about whether or not the film was based on a real murder and failed to disclose that in its credits, but ( Read more... )