Category Archives: film

OCTOBER CROW In LA On Sunset Boulevard

February 6, 2025 – 1:09 pm

Producer and director Jack Haven is debuting OCTOBER CROW in LA at Whammy Media 2514 W Sunset Boulevard. The 2024 film by Scab Production marks the directorial debut of Jack Haven aka Brigette Lundy-Paine creating the tale of Bella ( Alex McVickers ) fleeing Kentucky to the Last Babylon to be befriended by James (Peter […]

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American Friend – 1976 – Wim Wenders

February 5, 2025 – 11:15 am

Last night I watched Wim Wenders AMERICAN FRIEND 1976. I hadn’t seen it in almost a half- century. Six years later as a semi -fugitive from New York I ended up there working at. nightclub BSIRs. Back then the DJ Henri Flesh and I roamed the city looking for the film’s locations. I’m presently rewriting […]

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Acting Advice 102

January 25, 2025 – 11:53 am

Last week I was hired to play a bar pool player in LATE FAME, a movie created from Arthur Schnitlizer’s 1894 novella about a forgotten Vienese poet discovered by the young. the script was well-carved for the leafing man, Willem Dafoe, who had said, “This is a story about your recent life.” Sort of true. […]

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CHIMP CRAZY

August 16, 2024 – 11:08 am

Tuesday night I attended the HBO premiere of CHIMP CRAZY directed by Eric Goode. I was struck in this film by how these chimp lovers desire the love of the chimps to satisfy an emptiness in their lives, while oblivious to the pain of their loved ones. Strangely their providers are also trapped in life, […]

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Seven Samurai Maine 1959

April 4, 2024 – 12:32 pm

In the summer of 1959 my grandmother dragged me from a croquet game with my siblings on her lawn in Westbrrok Maine and sat me before the black and white Zenith TV. “I want you to watch this movie. THE SEVEN SAMURAI. It’s in Japanese with subtitles. They appear at the bottom of the TV, […]

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