

CHRISTMAS JAZZ Part II
Thought I'd focus on some variants on a single tune today. The selection is "Christmas Time is Here," by the Vince Guaraldi Trio. That...


CHRISTMAS JAZZ Part I
People who know me recognize the reverence I hold in my heart for the period between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, with a special...


THANKSGIVING TREAT
Couldn't resist the opportunity on this Thanksgiving to add Arlo Guthrie's immortal Alice's Restaurant Massacree to this blog. Played it...


NICK ADAMS-That's How It Is When You're Nineteen!
My students got a big kick out of the just slightly overripe voiceover to this trailer for the 1962 film Hemingway's Adventures of a...


THE AWFUL TRUTH
One of cinema's top ten sight gags-from Leo McCarey's sublime classic comedy of remarriage, The Awful Truth, starring Cary Grant and...


JAMES HONEYMAN SCOTT
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the last studio recordings of the late James Honeyman Scott, a woefully underrated guitar player...


MR. PEANUT/LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
Adam Ross's 2010 novel Mr. Peanut is the best initial work by an author I've read since Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh back...


TOP TEN Finale (at least until some time in 2012)
To conclude my thoughts on Sight & Sound's Top Ten lists that appear each decade (in the year ending in 2), let me clarify a few points. ...


TOP TEN (Part V-B)
Sorry I haven't posted recently. This weekend I will conclude my review of the Top Ten lists of Sight & Sound magazine, often thought to...


TOP TEN (Part V)
In 2002, Sight & Sound, arguably the premiere film journal in the world, conducted its latest survey of critics and directors to...



