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Nicolas Cage's Bad Lieutenant Performance All Miles Davis's Fault
“I went on Dick Cavett many years ago and met Miles Davis. And I was talking about things like art synthesis and Picasso and you can do with acting what he did, or with music, and Miles came out and he got it, you know, he was looking at me, he gave me this, like--he nodded ...
Blu-Ray Review: "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
I know this is absolute heresy for a guy in my line of work, but Ive never been a big fan of Wes Andersons filmmaking. There's a difference between developing real, honest characters with believable flaws and simply loading up the screen with quirk for quirks sake, and I think Anderson too often falls back on ...
Doors Documentary Won't Light Your Fire
Tom DiCillo's “When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors" means to answer the more loony flights of fancy taken by Oliver Stone in his 1991 Doors biopic, but, in the process, creates a formal exercise in redundancy, offering no new insights into the much mythologized rock band. The documentary does boast unseen archival footage of ...
Is Dr. Teeth a Jazz Muppet?
OK, its been too long since Ive posted anything at the blog again but rather than shut things down entirely (as I did in September) I am trying a slightly different strategy for combating the chain of events (too busy to read other jazz blogs, focus my writing energy elsewhere, too tired to write at the ...
Apps for iPad from Some TV Networks, Not All
Television networks are taking sharply different approaches to the iPad. One network, ABC, has readied a fully functional app for the eagerly awaited Apple tablet. Another, NBC, has ditched its plans to stream full television episodes onto the device. From MSNBC.com to People.com, buyers of the iPad will be able to watch plenty of ad-supported video ...
Music Biopics Struggle to Make It to the Big Screen
From “The Buddy Holly Story" to “Bird" and from “Walk the Line" to the current “Runaways," the lure of biopics about famous music figures is undeniable. The performers and their stories come loaded with a built-in awareness factor, anticipation among fans provides ready-made promotional fodder and such pics have proven to be Oscar bait for both ...
Irish Film Festival Features the Bass Player: A Song for Dad, on March 27
The 11th annual Irish Film Festival Boston is presenting The Bass Player: A Song For Dad by Irish filmmaker Niall McKay, at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, Somerville, MA. on Saturday, March 27, at 2:30 p.m.In this eloquent, witty homage to his father, McKay wrestles with his family's unsettling past to overcome his fear ...
'The T.A.M.I. Show': A Pop Music Time Capsule
The 1964 concert never turned into the annual fundraiser it was envisioned as, but it did bring together the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, the Beach Boys and James Brown, and now it's on DVD. “The T.A.M.I. Show," the fabled film document of an equally legendary 1964 concert in Santa Monica with the Rolling Stones, James Brown, ...
Michael Jackson's Revived Captain EO is Still Wired, Slightly Tired
ANAHEIM, California Michael Jackson's 3-D short film Captain EO is playing again at Disneyland, and the 24-year-old space opera still holds up. Mostly. Representing the height of 1986 movie technology, Captain EO was a lavish collaboration between Disney and George Lucas Industrial Light & Magic studio. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jackson at the ...
