The Atlanta Film Festival was the first one to give me a chance to cover it as a member of the press. I will always be grateful for that, and even when things might get dicey with my schedule, I will make it a point to try and go there every year, and see what they have to offer. One pandemic-era holdover is making that easy this year. Because of […]
Work has, admittedly, added a layer of anxiety in terms of covering film festivals that I usually have not had to worry about. In past years, I was able to just take the requisite vacation time- or was on furlough- and left to freely cover the festival. This year, that hasn’t happened. But I’m not going to allow that to stop me from covering the 46th Atlanta Film Festival. While […]
**This podcast was recorded during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn’t exist. Last year, it appeared that the greatest film composer of all-time, John Williams, might be retiring after “The Fabelmans” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”. Now, we are not sure, but it’s still a great time to honor the […]
**This podcast was recorded during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn’t exist. Film preservation is vital to keeping film alive, and right now, we are at a perilous moment for the practice. Today’s guest was on in 2022 as he launched a new streaming site for showing classic films as a part of […]
I don’t really write music reviews. I feel it’s a lot easier to watch a movie, and examine all it does right and what it does wrong. How do you do that for music? That said, when my friend and fellow composer Adam Scott Neal– whose website can be viewed through the link on his name- asked me about review his two latest albums of music, I agreed nonetheless, not […]
It’s the day Hitler killed himself. It’s origins date back to pre-Christian times. It’s the day during which the “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence from “Fantasia” supposedly takes place. It was acknowledged in the poem “Faust” by Goethe, whose words were later used in a Cantata by Felix Mendolssohn. Now, “Walpurgisnacht”- which is defined as the evening of April 30-March 1- is the inspiration for a short film I’ve had […]
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