To clarify: I have been sick for the past couple of days. It started out being a "sort of" sick and ended up blossoming into a "pretty sick" which became a "pretty damn sick." I'm feeling much better now, and I'm hoping to go back to work tomorrow morning more for the prospect of getting out of my damn apartment than for any warm fuzzies about ( Read more... )

I will start off by congratulating George Takei on his recent wedding to Brad Altman. It think it is rather fitting that Walter Koenig was his best man.
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I sometimes wonder what reviewers are thinking. John Carpenter's The Thing is a film often criticized for being short on characterization, and while I agree that it is sketchy at best, but I've always felt that worked in the film's favor. If you got to know these people inside and out, all warm and fuzzy, then it wouldn't fit either the isolation ( Read more... )

POINTS BY POINT:

• SAIDAGIVE!?!
  My family and I are going to see a matinée of Young Frankenstein this afternoon! I'm quite excited as we had a very good time at Spamalot, and Young Frankenstein is another favorite that we can all quote the entirety of. I have not heard the cast recording, I only hope that Mel Brooks preserved John Morris' ( Read more... )

I took a look at some high def cameras the other day. There are quite a few rather nice ones within my projected price range... and that's on Madison Avenue (about as expensive as they ever get), so I'm rather pleased with the options available to me ( Read more... )

It's annoying when a score I really like gets nominated for an Oscar. I know it won't win - the two Lord of the Rings wins for Howard Shore being an obvious exception in recent memory - but at least the other nominees are actual scores this year. My personal favorite of the nominees is Marco Beltrami's 3:10 To Yuma, but I expect it will either ( Read more... )

I really haven't been online much of late as I've been concentrating on other things, including preparing for The Early Mixes shoot coming up. I've also been devouring commentary tracks as well... hey, one of the most important lessons I ever learned about guerrilla filmmaking came from Spike Lee on the She's Gotta Have It Criterion laserdisc ( Read more... )

There is now more music on my iPod than I've had capacity for in the past. Just for shits and giggles...


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As I had watched Death Rides a Horse last night, I pulled Ennio Morricone's score off the shelf and was playing it earlier today... then, when I went out to get the wireless router (and printer as well, more on that one I have it set up), I checked the mail and the copy of Bruce Broughton's score for Roughing It, which I had ordered in preparation ( Read more... )

In preparation for the Bruce Broughton western mix, I have of course been listening to his two scores for Silverado and Tombstone. While the latter is indeed a darker cousin to the optimistic former, both are primarily written in the style of the old school, classic western score, as perhaps most essayed in a most iconic manner by Elmer Bernstein' ( Read more... )