July 2010
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June 2010
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Attention Marquez Fans! LA Film Festival Review:...
Of Love and Other Demons, a debut feature from Costa Rican Hilda Hildago, (i’d like some time alone with her parents) is everything a Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptation should be, sensual, romantic, and tragicomic. Hidalgo understands and respects her material, creating a film that is powerful in both it’s simplicity and it’s complexity (the author actually considers this to be one of his...
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LA(FF) EATS
Cold Buckwheat Noodles with Spicy Sauce from the Ahn Joo truck. Chef Debbie Lee, of The Next Food Network Star, launched her Korean snack bar addition to the food truck market this week at the LA Film Festival. Not only are these noodles delish, they are saving me from a diet consisting of popcorn and the nutrition bar that’s sponsoring the festival, Zone Perfect.
You are all getting...
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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
– Jean-Luc Godard
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Camera, Camera just had it’s world premier at the LA Film Festival. This documentary debut from director/cinematographer Malcolm Murray and writer Michael Meyer (you know it’s a good team when even their names sound good together) focuses their camera on the scenery and people of Laos and on the cameras of Western tourists there to partake in both the former and the latter. I talked...
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Which came first? The needy girl or the jerky...
This is not related to the LA Film Festival directly, but being in town has led me to examine the age old question, why do girls like bad boys? However, this isn’t really a motorcycle James Dean thing, but rather, why do some women fall for jerks and assholes, men that just don’t treat us like the goddesses we are?
I don’t have the answer per se, but I am happy to play...
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A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to...
– from ‘The Ethical Slut’ by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt
(via sluthaditcoming)
I call it SLUT! I’ve reclaimed it…slut…slut…say it with me…SLUT…SLUT…SLUT!!!
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I still love (what a weak word) you.
– Neal Cassady in a letter to Allen Ginsburg March 20th 1947.
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Reading the news and it sure looks bad. They won’t give peace a chance. ...
– Joni Mitchell “California.” Her lyrics sum up how I feel about the IDF raid on the Free Gaza Flotilla.
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