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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019): People Like Me
Let’s take a minute and think about a Chinese restaurant. Two men sit across the table from one another. The older man is an icon of kindness; the younger one is a self-described misfit, battered both externally and internally. The older man is hardly recognizable in his windbreaker—we know him in a sweater. But today, he wears a dark jacket and a kind smile.
On Janet Planet, The Wild Robot, and Trying
This is not a Bluey essay. Still, it’s worth acknowledging that in 2024, Joe Brumm announced that this past spring’s episode “Surprise” was, in fact, the last serialized episode he would be working on (save your tears, he’s pivoted to the movie). “Surprise” is the end of Bluey as we know it, and its future is uncertain. So how did Joe Brumm’s last seven-minute Bluey go?
‘Dog Man’: Sit, stay, watch
In 1997, author/illustrator Dav Pilkey published “The Adventures of Captain Underpants,” launching a series of a dozen junior novels focused on the troublemaking adventures of pre-adolescent George Beard and Harold Hutchins. As it happened, George and Harold were interested in writing and illustrating their own comic books, including the crude (in both the artistic and comedic sense) stories of Dog Man—as the slogan goes, part dog, part man, all hero.
The Ghost of Electricity: A Complete Unknown and the Cinematic Dylan
These are the facts: on the night of Sunday, July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan performed three songs with an electric backing band at the Newport Folk Festival, held annually in Newport, Rhode Island. This is the myth: Dylan was roundly rejected by the audience, who found his performance an affront to all they believed and held sacred. They booed him overwhelmingly.
The Little Tragedy
K1 I can almost see you in your ranks—waiting for your turn to live. Ghosts of the future. Be visible. I beg you. Will you not enter this place and stay with me till dawn? What must I do to make you visible? Rise you up in the flesh to be my audience? Gracious readers, obliging companions, I present to you, my composition, entitled: The Little Tragedy; or, Did He Do It? K2 The 18th century has been termed the Age of Enlightenment.
I Saw "The Sign"
“This is, like, the episode of episodes!” my seven year old crowed towards the end of "The Sign," the newest episode of Bluey, what’s by now become pretty handily my favorite show on TV. Yes, it’s a cartoon primarily targeted at preschoolers, but as I’ve established by now both here and elsewhere, this show is something different.
Magnolia (1999): That Moment
P.T. Anderson sat down at the table to write his third movie. “Usually,” he said later, “you sit down at the table and you know there are all these things you want to get into the movie…I want it to be sad and funny and have action set pieces in it.” He laughed. “And sometimes they just happen.” This time, what happened was this: — First, a dying old man speaks for about eight minutes.
FINALE — One Heat Minute Productions
It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to get things started with THE GREAT HENSON CAPER! 12 episodes. Three months. The life and works of one of the 20th century's greatest artists - Jim Henson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.
THE STORYTELLER - One Heat Minute Productions
It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to get things started with THE GREAT HENSON CAPER! 12 episodes. Three months. The life and works of one of the 20th century's greatest artists - Jim Henson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard. Episode ten sees Henson treating folktales honestly, to questionable success, with THE STORYTELLER.
THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN — One Heat Minute Productions
It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to get things started with THE GREAT HENSON CAPER! 12 episodes. Three months. The life and works of one of the 20th century's greatest artists - Jim Henson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard. Episode eight sees Henson hand over directing responsibilities to Frank Oz for the third entry in the trilogy THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN.
FRAGGLE ROCK — One Heat Minute Productions
It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to get things started with THE GREAT HENSON CAPER! 12 episodes. Three months. The life and works of one of the 20th century's greatest artists - Jim Henson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.
This Essay on Bluey is Called "For Real Life"
https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Bluey-Ethan-Warren.mp3 [Listen to an audio version of this essay] There’s a term used on Bluey. It’s often voiced by Bluey Heeler, a six-year-old Australian Cattle Dog, but her four-year-old sister, Bingo, uses it, too. They pull it out when they encounter something so awesome it’s impossible to process all at once. Any time they’re offered a truly exceptional privilege or treat, they need to confirm its reality.
THE DARK CRYSTAL — One Heat Minute Productions
It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to get things started with THE GREAT HENSON CAPER! 12 episodes. Three months. The life and works of one of the 20th century's greatest artists - Jim Henson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard. Episode six sees Henson flirt with Lord of the Rings, and the battle between good and evil with The Dark Crystal.
For Two Songs in a Row
What is it about Rio Bravo (1959)? What elevates this film from the ranks of other ’50s Westerns to the status of classic—ranked (if we care about such things) the eighth greatest Western of all time by Vulture and Newsweek, third greatest by Slant magazine, and awarded the status of Great Movie by Roger Ebert, who described it as “a masterpiece,” evidence of “a master craftsman at work”? For my money, it’s the two songs. Any movie might take time for a single musical interlude, but two in a row?
Issue 124: Westerns
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THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER — One Heat Minute Productions
It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to get things started with THE GREAT HENSON CAPER! 12 episodes. Three months. The life and works of one of the 20th century's greatest artists - Jim Henson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard. Episode five sees Henson cannot stop the momentum toward The Great Muppet Caper.
THE MUPPET MOVIE — One Heat Minute Productions
It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to get things started with THE GREAT HENSON CAPER! 12 episodes. Three months. The life and works of one of the 20th century's greatest artists - Jim Henson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard. Episode four sees Henson leap from the TV screen to the cinema screen with, The Muppet Movie.
THE MUPPET SHOW - One Heat Minute Productions
It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to get things started with THE GREAT HENSON CAPER! 12 episodes. Three months. The life and works of one of the 20th century's greatest artists - Jim Henson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard. Episode three sees the rise and rise of a culture-altering phenomenon, The Muppet Show.
SESAME STREET — One Heat Minute Productions
It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to get things started with THE GREAT HENSON CAPER! 12 episodes. Three months. The life and works of one of the 20th century's greatest artists - Jim Henson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard. Episode two charts the development and Henson’s involvement in the launch of SESAME STREET.
The Alternative Press
The ‘60s are dead, and the staff at the Back Bay Mainline are giving the eulogy. Harry (John Heard), reporter and would-be great American writer, keeps a photo of “the rally” in a box of treasures. Late one night, his colleague, Laura (Gwen Welles)—not Abbie (Lindsay Crouse), the colleague with whom he usually sleeps, but hey, Laura usually sleeps with their colleague Michael, too—finds the photo and asks whether Harry was there. “Everybody was there,” he says, astonished.
Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair
In 1948, Viking Books published Blueberries for Sal, the first of three picture books that Robert McCloskey would write and illustrate over the next decade. Each of the three books—including One Morning in Maine (1952) and Time of Wonder (1957)—concerns McCloskey’s own family as they spend their summers on an island off the coast of Maine.
Another Slice of LICORICE PIZZA
Today, filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson celebrates his 53rd birthday. If the name of this 11-time Oscar nominee doesn’t ring a bell, watch the clip compilation below for a tour through a filmography that extends from explosions of youthful energy like Boogie Nights to definitive American tomes like There Will Be Blood.
On the Hazy, Lazy, Ethereal Noir of Inherent Vice
Across the nearly two-and-a-half-hour sprawl of Inherent Vice, Coy Harlingen, surf rock saxophonist and heroin addict turned CIA asset, appears in two centerpiece scenes.
On the Hazy, Ethereal Noir of Inherent Vice
Across the nearly two-and-a-half-hour sprawl of Inherent Vice, Coy Harlingen, surf rock saxophonist and heroin addict turned CIA asset, appears in two centerpiece scenes.
Disney’s largely forgotten wartime shorts, ranked
poly-lt-wire-logo Image: Walt Disney Animation Where to find the gems in Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time, and the rest of Disney’s ‘package films’ By Mar 7, 2023, 2:01pm EST The 1940s were a strange period in the history of Disney animation.
Everything we know about the Blackhat production — One Heat Minute Productions
Since there have been some renewed conversations around this film with the announcement of the UHD release, I decided to compose a post explaining all the information I’ve collected about this film. Blackhat is one of Mann’s lesser talked about movies. Due to the lack of extras on its home video release, there isn’t as much information around production as expected.
The Band’s Massive Weight: On Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz” and Jeff Sellars and Kevin C. Neece’s “Rags and Bones”
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Between Art and Life: An audio essay on Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans — One Heat Minute Productions
An audio essay on Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans written and read by Ethan Warren, produced and edited by Blake Howard. In the opening moments of The Fabelmans, Sammy's parents, Burt and Mitzi, bring him to his first movie: Cecil B DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth. Mitzi informs Sammy that by the time the movie is over, he’ll have the biggest, sloppiest smile on his face, but Sammy’s response isn’t so simple.
All Creatures Great and Small confronts despair like only a comforting show can
Right from the start, the new-to-Netflix movie from Train to Busan and Peninsula writer-director Yeon Sang-ho brings to mind other sci-fi films, as so many genre movies do. For American audiences, at least, the opening sequences and other moments in JUNG_E will recall movies like Alita: Battle Angel, Elysium, and other Neill Blomkamp pictures, along with The Phantom Menace, later-period Terminator sequels like Salvation, and the Alex Proyas version of I, Robot. 2 DAYS AGO
All Creatures Great and Small confronts despair like only a comforting show can
Filed under: Entertainment All Creatures Great and Small continues to be astounding television in difficult times By Jan 22, 2023, 10:00pm EST This week’s episode of All Creatures Great and Small — the third episode of the third season, entitled “Surviving Siegfried” — offered something rare for this series: flashbacks.
Why All Creatures Great and Small is About So Much More Than a Charming Country Vet
Though he served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, the veterinary surgeon turned bestselling memoirist James Herriot eschewed discussion of that conflict in his 1974 book All Things Bright and Beautiful.
The Dream Elvis Biopic Survey
Discover more from Between Art and Life “The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life...the cinema both gives to life and takes from it.” - Jean-Luc Godard As anyone subscribed to this newsletter is likely aware, I spent the second half of 2022 gripped by Elvis fever.
My Tenth Elvis, or: Suspicious Minds
The following was drafted between the hours of approximately 1:00 and 4:00 PM on Friday, December 9, 2022, three days before it was posted here. It was originally intended to be posted to Letterboxd, but was held in order to receive oversight from trusted readers. It is the second-longest work the author has ever written for publication. The longest is a book. tw: mood disorders To quote the title character of my favorite movie (Elvis (2022)), I, uh…I want to try something new.
It’s Called a Repair
For about the past year—so since around the time he turned three—there’s been a consistent element in my son’s bedtime routine: after reading two books and singing one song, we lie in bed and talk about his day. Recently, tucked beside him on his blue plaid quilt, bathed in the glow of his closet light, I found myself apologizing for some moment of conflict between the two of us earlier in the day. “You say sorry a lot when we talk about my day,” my son observed.
Netflix’s The Midnight Club might convert a new generation into horror buffs Original
poly-lt-wire-logo Photo: Eike Schroter/Netflix Filed under: Reviews Hill House creator Mike Flanagan’s latest show gives us weak Goosebumps By Oct 7, 2022, 8:00am EDT In the mid 1990s, America’s children were gripped by Goosebumps fever.
The Shooting (1966): Ride to Nowhere
HAMM We’re not beginning to…to…mean something? CLOV Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that’s a good one! —Samuel Beckett, Endgame In Monte Hellman’s 1971 roadsploitation masterpiece Two-Lane Blacktop, James Taylor’s nameless protagonist sits on a fence ruminating on the life cycle of cicadas. “Those are some freaky bugs,” he tells his traveling companion.
Issue 112: B-Movies
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Juvenile Delinquency and the “Sinister Adolescents” of Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson’s Film About Two Misunderstood Preteens Has More in Common with Terrence Malick’s Badlands Than it Might Seem On September 5th, 1965, the Courier of Waterloo, Iowa ran an article concerning the scourge of juvenile delinquency.
My Summer of Elvis: Part One
I’ll be on vacation for the next two weeks, so in lieu of a new release, I’m going to devote a couple of weeks to my obsession of the summer: Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis and (to steal Fran’s line) the titular Elvis. I have seen Elvis six times this summer. “Mental illness!” my friend and colleague Spencer declared as I announced my fourth viewing. “Self-medication!” I replied.
Arizona in a Handbasket
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"Bodies Bodies Bodies" Reviewed
“This game gets very ugly,” one central character says prior to the party game that gives Bodies Bodies Bodies its title, as well as its first shove into descending chaos. The game is a sort of hyper-intense version of Mafia, Werewolf, or any other supposed lark that involves friends attempting to pick one another off while evading detection—this version just happens to involve copious consumption of liquor and some lighthearted physical violence.
"Nope" Reviewed
Jordan Peele’s Nope begins with an epigraph drawn from the Book of Nahum, an Old Testament text written by what’s called a minor prophet. Nahum prophesied the forthcoming destruction of the Assyrian empire—“I will pelt you with filth,” reads Peele’s chosen verse, “I will treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle.” The reference connects very directly to the events of Peele’s third feature, but more than that, it signals the film’s ambitions.
Joe Pera Talks With You was the perfect handbook for an era of compounding crises
[Ed. note: This essay contains spoilers for the entirety of Joe Pera Talks With You.] “I don’t think people are bad,” Sarah Conner (Jo Firestone) says towards the beginning of the third season of Joe Pera Talks With You. “Just…” Sarah isn’t given the chance to finish her thought. She’s interrupted by a phone call alerting her boyfriend, Joe (Joe Pera), to the urgent news that apple turnovers are two-for-one at the local market.
What a Year! Season 1 Trailer on Apple Podcasts
In the trailer for What a Year! season 1, Ethan Warren introduces the new show in which he and Ryan Pollie create a time capsule of movies, music, and other cultural odds and ends alongside contributions from expert correspondents.
Watching | Adaptation (2002)
I’m useless. I’ve abandoned 11 essays in the past six months. I’m in a rut. I can’t remember how to do my job. I can’t remember how to watch a movie and translate the experience into something cogent. I used to do it all the time. Now I can’t finish anything. I’m pathetic. Voyeur. The “Voyeur” issue. I’ve already abandoned two ideas for this month. Voyeur. So that’s the beginning, I guess.
AMC Plus’ Moonhaven review: Homework from the future
poly-lt-wire-logo Photo: Szymon Lazewski/AMC Filed under: TV A murder mystery is just the beginning of this overly busy series By Jul 7, 2022, 12:20pm EDT It is by no means a sin to open your TV series with an on-screen text offering that’s known as an info-dump. For as unappetizing as that pair of words may be, excellent stories have begun this way before (“Oceans are now battlefields,” anyone?) and will again.
An Unprincipled Man
On August 13, 1963, the San Angelo Standard-Times reported that the American cattle industry was bracing for a potential outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. Impacting any hoofed livestock, foot-and-mouth is “one of the most dreaded diseases of animals,” the Standard-Times attested. There is no way to treat or combat the disease, and so “it is necessary to destroy and bury all infected and exposed susceptible animals.” The last American outbreak had taken place 34 years earlier, in 1929.
Just Take Me Out of My Mind
illustration by Karagh Byrne We listen to music that has a pulse… It lets us know that we’re continuing to move forward, that we’re in motion, that everything is all right. — Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music A question: what do you do with music? An answer: You play it. No shit, right? But bear with me. You play the guitar, or the keyboard, or the kazoo. You play the disc, or the tape, or the file. In order to create the uniquely magical effects of which music is capable, you have to play.
Sundancing With Myself, Vol. 2
About halfway through the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, I saw a debate arise on Twitter: to skip the pre-roll, or not to skip the pre-roll? In this case, “pre-roll” would refer to the perhaps four to six minutes of video appended to the front of each virtual offering.
The Bird and the Bee
It’s hard to say what’s more fucked up, John Patrick Shanley’s neo-film maudit Wild Mountain Thyme or my unconditional love for it. The internet thrives on ‘unpopular opinion’ prompts—what opinion, Twitter screams at me endlessly, would get you this response?
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