Television
Are You A Hippie, And If Not…Wherein Not?
by Nick Glossop on May 14, 2013
In this 1968 episode of Firing Line, William F. Buckley and sociologist Lewis Yablonsky attempt to put Hippie-ism, in the persons of a gooned and pugnacious Jack Kerouac and Ed Sanders of the Fugs, under the microscope. A stilted sort of hilarity ensues. Buckley smirks, Kerouac blunders, swinging wildly, Yablonsky drones and Ed the Fug, alone, emerges with personal dignity intact.
Via Open Culture
William F.: Do
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BC Film And Television – All Quiet On The Western Front?
by Gaalen Engen on April 17, 2013
A precipice has been steadily building over the last five years and with the collapse of the global economy, parity of the Canadian dollar and an aggressively competitive marketplace, BC’s film and television production industry is teetering on the edge of it. What used to be the third largest producer of film and television in North America next to Los Angeles and New York is now slipping past fifth place. …
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Video:Downton Zombie
by Tony Longworth on March 20, 2013
Downton Abbey gets a Zombie infestation! Spoilers for the finale of season 3, btw.
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Has film lost the plot? House of Cards proves TV is ideal for complex narrative
by Laurence Miall on February 21, 2013
Having watched all 13 episodes of the Netflix remake of House of Cards, featuring Kevin Spacey at pretty much his most delightfully evil, I’m left wondering if it is to TV, rather than to film, that viewers should look if they want complex narrative. While mainstream film tends ever-more toward the spectacle – do we really need a 3D everything, including Piranhas? – popular television (of the high …
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Burns Day Musings On My Glasgow Years (and on my love for Ivor Cutler)
by Nick Glossop on January 26, 2013
Scotch Odds 1
There should be an annual celebration of Scottish oddness running from January 15th to the 25th. It would end with the usual Burns Supper Bacchanalia of dubious cuisine, impenetrable verse and bellicose tea towels, but it would begin with a more modest acknowledgment of the birthday of Glasgow’s most lovable wordsmith Ivor Cutler (15 January 1923 – 3 March 2006). Cutler’s poems, stories and songs (typically played …
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Downton Allegory
by Josh Witten on January 7, 2013
What I got from Season 3 premier (Spoilers) of Downton Abbey is that the Crawleys are an exceptionally good-looking version of Goldman Sachs desperate for a bailout to rescue them from a financial disaster created by their own poor decision to invest to heavily in one trendy sector because they are either “job creators” or “too big to fail” or both. The lesson for the US financial industry is …
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A Look Back With Mr. Doo-Dah
by Nick Glossop on December 31, 2012
Ring in the New Year with Vivian Stanshall, of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and the man who says “Grand Piano” at the 19:48 point (save that for later in the night).
Of Pomp and Circumcision
Assuming that that clip has only whetted your appetite for Doo-Dah Da-Da, below is Crank, broadcast in 1995 as an obituary salute and touchingly introduced by John Peel.
I have to admit
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1000 Words, 1000 Days: Day 355 – Stinking Up The Kessel Run – Worst TV Part 3
by Marty Schwartz on December 23, 2012
As a child reared amid the glow of the legend of the greatest film trilogy of all time, a number of given facts about the Star Wars universe were firmly entrenched in my mind. Looking back to that hazy period in between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, here are a few certainties as they existed in my childhood perception: Luke Skywalker is now a respected soldier in the …
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1000 Words, 1000 Days: Day 300 – It’s The Eurovision Song Contest Winners! Save Us All! (part 2)
by Marty Schwartz on October 28, 2012
According to my raven-haired mistress whom I call Ms. Wiki, there have been sixty top-prize winners in the Eurovision Song Contest since its 1956 debut. That’s fifty-seven years of winners, with an ugly four-way tie in 1969. Because today is Day 300 and I foolishly believe that history cares if I do something grand with such a plump, round number, I’ve decided to review each of the Eurovision winners.…
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Walking in the City, as a Woman
by Andrew Loewen on October 26, 2012
I’ve always done a lot of walking. And I’ve lived in several cities. I can’t recall the last time I saw a guy “cat call” a woman, though if you’re attuned to it the oggling is relentless. Apparently in NYC verbal harassment is still the order of the day. W Kamau Bell’s street segments for his TV show Totally Biased are great and this one is no exception.
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On ‘A Letter From A Scared Actress’ And The Exploitation Of Good People
by Lorelei Loveridge on September 25, 2012
Following up on the article I wrote the other day about the film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ that has caused riots, deaths and protests (hugely mapped out already by Wikipedia) in the Middle East and worldwide, this is the painful testimony (to a writer/friend named Neil Gaiman) by a Georgian actress named Anna Gurji who joined the film’s production team in what she thought was a cheap spoof about …
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1000 Words, 1000 Days: Day 230 – 17 Things I Didn’t Know About The Golden Girls
by Marty Schwartz on August 19, 2012
Like any red-blooded North American youth in the late 80s, I spent many a Saturday evening watching four retirement-age ladies talk about cheesecake and humping. I saw an episode of The Golden Girls a few weeks ago and it still made me laugh, which is more than I can say for most of my childhood favorites (I’m looking at you, Mr. Belvedere).
There was a lot I didn’t know about …
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