Heat (1995)

Of note: the bookends of the close-up on Val Kilmer before the first shot fired, and the close-up on Al Pacino after the last shot fired.

Long Read

The Gambler who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code by Kit Chellel

finishing up 2018 like

One More Saturday Silent Night aka (A Tom Waits Xmas)

Charles Schultz (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas)

A Charlie Brown Christmas' completing the trilogy of Halloween, Thanksgiving. There's such a simple truth, melancholy with Charles Schultz's work that I've only realized this year.

"What's going on here?!?!

"Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown."

1920s

A Long Strange Trip (Best of the Decade, 2010-19)

At Red Rocks, with my brother. From rainbows to black muddy rivers.

The Hateful Eight (Best of the Decade, 2010-2019)

Georgia (dir. Ulu Grosbard, 1995)

Blaze, Inside Llewyn Davis, A Star is Born

Dark Star/Bertha (Oakland)

On a monday night. or early 1/1/82 around 3am.

The Deuce (Best of the Decade, 2010-2019)

Maggie Gyllenhaal's discovery.

Springsteen on Broadway, Netflix, NPR, etc.

Lady Bird (Best of the Decade, 2010-2019)

Insert the scene where Ladybird aka Christine is picked up on her way to the prom. "Are you really gonna go with them?" "Yes, I think I am."

In the car "Crash Into Me" by Dave Matthews Band comes on the radio.

Horace & Pete (Best of the Decade, 2010-2019)

On a Saturday night, a Sunday night scene about online dating and falling. 

25th anniversary *December 7th release*

Edens Theater. (music: exodus by wojciech kilar)

Crush

 in hibernation. And it's been re-awakened. #YoLaTango #SharonVanEtten #Ramones

 

Roxy 75 (Going Back)

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band."  

Opening with Thunder Road (solo piano) > Tenth-Avenue Freeze Out

Encore: Going Back. Played all 5 nights at the Roxy. And never played again. #Hobo-era #70s #LA

Thunder Road (1958)

Mood (on a friday night in december)

(i slipped on some stairs carrying my dog) bruce played this five straight night in LA 75. never played it again.

In Hiding

Shame, art, and hope in 2018 for my particular age group.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-ive-wasted-my-whole-life.html?fbclid=IwAR3Eo3rjhV1lwgouxRrOokyYCcu4HdwWRL1KSp-rZ6-0eUvZg9HFt0I1NS8

A Star Is Born (Again)

A Star Is Born

Smoke Break (Mayor & Bozo)

Circumcision (Pollock, 1946)

Exodus (Wojciech Kilar, 1981)

Mara/Phoenix

Roger Ebert (on Tree Of Life)

Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with shabby thrills, diminish the value of life. Some few films evoke the wonderment of life's experience, and those I consider a form of prayer. Not prayer "to" anyone or anything, but prayer "about" everyone and everything. I believe prayer that makes requests is pointless. What will be, will be. But I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine.

Boat Landing, Dinnard (Maurice Prendergast, 1914)

NYC Underground 80s

Lady Bird by Jason Polan

Inspired by Malika Favre

Inspired by Takashi Murakami

PTA's Phantom Thread Pre-Show Playlist (70mm Screenings)

1. “Blue Sands” – The Chico Hamilton Quintet
2. “Portrait of My Love” – Cyril Ornadel & Starlight Symphony
3. “You’re So Vain” – Carly Simon
4. “Dolly Suite, Op. 56: I. Berceuse” – Gabriel Fauré, Katia Labèque
5. “I’ll Always Be in Love with You” – Helen Forrest
6. “I’m Making Believe” – Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots
7. “Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye” – Roberta Flack
8. “Nobody Does It Better” – Carly Simon
9. “Impression of a Princess” – Danish State Radio Orchestra & Robert Farnon
10. “My Ship” – Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle
11. “Razor Love” – Neil Young
12. “Suspicions” – Bernard Herrmann
13. “Thirteen (Alternate Mix)” – Big Star
14. “Coming Around Again” – Carly Simon
15. “Portrait of Jenny” – Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle
16. “Two Blind Loves” – Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra, Kitty Kallen
17. “I’m On Fire” – Bruce Springsteen
18. “Three Little Words” – Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra
19. “Stay (feat. Mikky Ekko)” – Rihanna
20. “Lord of the Manor” – The Everly Brothers
21. “Come Sunday” – Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle
22. “XO” – Beyoncé
23. “Farewell (from the film The Constant Nymph)” – Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Altman in 2018/1975

I think Altman is, like F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the great poets of failure. His real attraction is to that secret underside of the American dream: humiliation, embarrassment, loss of status, and the abiding anxiety the fear of these produces. 
-- Molly Haskell on NASHVILLE

David Hockney at Home

Three Musicians (Pablo Picasso)

USA Today Baseball Weekly

Cat Watching a Spider by Ôide Tôkô (Japanese, 1841–1905) (album leaf; ink and colour on silk)

Brawl on Cell Block 99 (Dir. S. Craig Zahler)

God Damn! God Damn!! God Damn!!!

The violence in the film, especially toward the end, is intensely shocking and graphic. Given that “do it on the set” attitude, did you stick with practical effects?

One hundred percent practical effects. There is nothing there that’s not practical. It’s the same thing: make it happen on the day, and figure it out. A couple of moments fell a little short, and we went back and did a little pick-up shoot after the movie was done. But it’s the same idea of how to affect the audience. My feeling is, if it’s a digital effect that doesn’t look entirely real, which is the case in $150 million movies, there’s nothing there, and you can feel it. If it’s a practical effect and it looks pretty good, but not 100 percent right, you can still feel there’s something real there. Maybe all the qualities aren’t completely right, the audience says, “That’s a little rubbery,” but there’s still something to talk about. Whereas when it’s digital and it doesn’t work, your mind goes, “Well, it’s all computers.” It’s a different thing on a subconscious level. It’s the same reason I try to have as few edits as possible in my movies, because every edit is a suspension of disbelief.

Pasiphaë (1945) -- André Masson (b.1896)

Woody Guthrie New Years Rulin's 1943