Saturday, August 31, 2013

Happy Birthday, Gildy -- The Great Gildersleeve debuted on this day in 1941 at the Amoeblog

Happy Birthday, Gildy -- The Great Gildersleeve debuted on this day in 1941 at the Amoeblog

Today is the 72nd anniversary of the debut of radio's greatest sitcom -- The Great Gildersleeve! Leeeroy...

Monday, August 26, 2013

Upcoming Satyajit Ray screenings in Los Angeles, London, and Vienna at the Amoeblog

Upcoming Satyajit Ray screenings in Los Angeles, London, and Vienna at the Amoeblog

There are a bunch of Satyajit Ray films coming up in Los Angeles, London, and Vienna. 19 of the auteur's 36 films have been restored by the Academy Film Archive and only a few of them are currently available on DVD, Blu-Ray, or Netflix. Here's your chance to see restored prints as they were meant to be seen -- on the big screen.


Sunday, August 18, 2013

Don't Knock the Rock 2013 is coming

Don't Knock the Rock 2013 is coming

Two films are playing on opening night of "Don't Knock the Rock" that I'm very excited to see, "Lawrence of Belgravia" about Lawrence (Felt, Supermarket, Denim, Go-Kart Mozart) and "Autoluminescent" about Rowland S. Howard (Young Charlatans, Boys Next Door, Birthday Party, Tuff Monks, Crime & the City Solution, These Immortal Souls)

Monday, August 12, 2013

Friday, August 2, 2013

What you neighbors know about the Dirty South? -- A South County primer at the Amoeblog

What you neighbors know about the Dirty South? -- A South County primer

Here's one of the last Southland primers that I've to write. I suppose that I still need to do one for the Los Angeles County Channel Islands and that will be it! Hopefully this will prompt some votes for various South Orange County communities to be the future subjects of coverage.