Just a few months ago, in September, I somewhat unceremoniously celebrated my 8th year at the helm of this still-imperfect, though incrementally improving, work-in-progress blog. My first couple of years were an experiment, to be sure, but I found my stride here at RMWMTMBM around 2008 or so, and it’s been mostly gravy since. I’m…
Read MoreIt is indeed difficult to imagine the world without America, which is what the one-sheet movie poster for Dinesh D’Souza’s America dares us to imagine. After all, America is every bit as much a symbol, an aspiration and an idea as it is a nation-state. However, it is not difficult to imagine the world without D’Souza’s “America” or…
Read MoreI had the very good fortune to attend my first Spillit event last night in (local photographer/visual anthropologist, Jamie Harmon‘s) Amurica studio space. Spillit is one of the newer additions to what has become, over the last several years, an incredibly rich, astoundingly diverse, mostly DIY and impressively self-sustaining (for lack of a better descriptor)…
Read More[Disclaimer: I haven’t read any of the books in Suzanne Collins’ wildly popular Hunger Games trilogy, though I did see the first movie version of that trilogy (The Hunger Games) last year and I just saw the second film, currently out in theaters, Catching Fire. I’ll go ahead and stipulate that the books are probably…
Read MoreToday’s is the easiest pick of the 31 Day Film Challenge by a long-shot. I really, truly, deeply and categorically cannot stand Matt Damon. As much as I wish I could, I cannot put a finger on exactly what it is that irks me so much about Matt Damon. I like many, even most, of…
Read MoreSo, I know I chose both a Jeff Bridges and a Coen brothers film just a couple of days ago, but I can’t help it. I’m doing it again today. Jeff Bridges is an unlikely pick, I know, but he’s definitely one of my favorite actors. And if I’m forced (which I am today) to…
Read MoreAbout eight months ago, when I was planning the syllabus for last semester’s Philosophy of Film course, I had exactly the same problem I’m having today trying to determine which is the “best” of the hundreds of truly great sports films. Here was (and is) my dilemma: when I think of sport as an important…
Read MoreMy “favorite Director” is, technically speaking, two directors: the brothers Ethan and Joel Coen. Although they are separate people, of course, who have talents distinct from one another, it is still the case that most cinephiles treat them as the single entity “Coen brothers.” It was hard to pass over many in the pantheon of…
Read MoreAs I mentioned a few days ago, I am in the process of making my first documentary film this summer, so I probably thought a good deal more about today’s prompt than I otherwise might have. There are so many different types of documentaries and the ones I like the most, I like for very…
Read MoreLike a lot of other people doing the 31 Day Film Challenge, I can quote “a” line from most film’s that I’ve seen. I can quote several lines from all the good films I’ve seen. Some films, like Casablanca and The Godfather and The Holy Grail, include dialogue that has embedded itself so deeply in…
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