What We’re Watching
What We’re Watching – SIFF 2012 Edition
The Mexican Suitcase: In the late 1930s, photographers Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David “Chim” Seymour traveled to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Three boxes—known as the “Mexican Suitcase”—of their work went missing, only to resurface seventy years later in Mexico. The…
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What We’re Watching – 2/8/2012
Awkward. Near the end of 2011 I started perusing top ten lists to see if there was anything that I hadn’t heard of that might be interesting. On a TV list I had I saw Awkward., a show about a young teenage girl named Jenna…
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What We’re Watching – 2/1/2012
In Name Only (1939) Wealthy businessman Alec Walker (Cary Grant) is unhappily married to Maida (Kay Francis), a schemer who married him for money, not love. He learned of her deceit shortly after they were married, but she has his parents and society fooled into…
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What We’re Watching – 1/19/2012
Ah, winter. The time when my usual routine of watching a lot of stuff turns into “really watching a lot of stuff,” what with it being dreary outside most of the time. Here are a few things that have distracted me during the last stretch…
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What We’re Watching – 1/11/2012
Television has been taking up much of my time, as I am still playing catch up with several shows, so these are the newest shows I have been trying out.
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What We’re Watching – 1/4/2012
Trying to discover the logic behind what I decide to watch on any given day is an exercise in futility. I watch some things because the writer, director, DP and/or actor(s) interest me. I watch some things that my movie snob friends would refer to…
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