November 15, 2005 – 1:01 pm
I finally got around to watching Oldboy last night. It’s a Korean film by director Chan-Wook Park. Oldboy was named Best Asian Film at the Hong Kong film awards, won Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes, and has come highly recommended by several friends of mine. I understood why in the first several minutes. [...]
November 15, 2005 – 12:01 am
(Joy is the newest member of Spout and, currently, in the evenings she performs in the stage version of THE WIZARD OF OZ)
Growing up in a more stage-focused than film-focused family, I saw The Sound of Music on stage for the first time at age five. By all accounts, it made me crazy. I went [...]
October 27, 2005 – 9:00 am
There can be too much of a good thing. Surrounding yourself with the most savvy mavens and watching only the most avant-garde films and eating only food that’s too unusual to even name gets old after a while. Every once in a while I just want my childhood friend, a James Bond film, and a [...]
October 25, 2005 – 9:00 am
Life doesn’t fit into neatly labeled packages. Neither do films. “Action, comedy, drama and horror” are sadly insufficient labels. Can you remember the last time you could neatly label a day in your life with one of those terms? Neither can we. That’s why we believe in embracing the messy complexity of life.
October 24, 2005 – 9:00 am
Moving forward involves looking back. Even if it’s writing one sentence each morning on a piece of paper you keep on the bedside table or making lists of films you love. As time goes by, you can look back and see where you’ve come from. Seeing where you come from is the clearest way to [...]
October 21, 2005 – 9:00 am
Exercise your freedom to love what you love, but don’t love it because you’ve never tried anything else. Say you eat one soft-boiled egg with a piece of white toast every morning for breakfast. Or maybe you only ever watch films that show up in the theater or at the big rental establishment down the [...]
October 20, 2005 – 9:00 am
Lists are indispensable. Lists are how we keep track of things and define who we are. A list of my favorite books, a list of places I’ve lived, a list of friends I have or no longer have. Lists are the bones my life’s story is built on. In lists I can also find out [...]
October 4, 2005 – 11:56 am
I may catch some flack for this, but I’m going to list some recent developments that I see as connected:
1) The Undergraduate degree is today what the High School diploma was 25 years ago. If you have always been intrigued by the Snail Darter fish of the Tennessee River Valley, there’s a job for you. [...]
