The first shot of Todd Field’s 2022 film Tár is phone held by an unknown person, filming a sleeping Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) on a plane. Over the image pop up chat messages: —our girls an early riser isnt she —haunted —ha you mean she has a conscience —maybe —you still […]
Ends and beginnings. I have no sense of 2023 as a particular thing, and I expect in the future that I will think back to various events and items of the year and not remember that 2023 was their year. Perhaps this is a post-2020 effect. The years feel indistinguishable. […]
The most famous line in Harold Pinter’s script for the 1971 film The Go-Between is also the most famous line from the L.P. Hartley novel it adapted — its first line: “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” In his beguiling and unsettling new film May December, Todd Haynes […]
Jill, a film based on my short story “Blood”, is now streaming in the US for free (with ads) on Tubi and the Roku Channel after more than a year on the festival circuit and a theatrical release in Europe. It was written and directed by Steven Michael Hayes and stars Tom […]
October is the best month. Though, as the month of my birthday, it is one of the more expensive months of the year for me (mostly because of car registration and inspection), it is also LGBTQ+ History Month and the month of Halloween, giving us an excuse (as if we needed […]
I expect the title of the new HBO documentary mini-series Telemarketers may limit its audience. Not that the title is inaccurate. This is a documentary about the telemarketing industry over the past 25 years or so. But there likely aren’t that many people out there yearning for a deep dive into […]
I’ve always been attracted to the (highly romanticized) idea of monks hunkering down in out-of-the-way monasteries to save cultural artifacts from destruction by the vagaries of time, weather, war, and indifference. If it weren’t for all the religious stuff, I’d be happy to be one of those monks. I mourn […]
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