ROCK PAPER SCISSORS: A DIALOGUE (SEASON 1 MARATHON) – EPISODE ONE
Who are we? Why are we here? Where are we going? These very questions preoccupy the stars of this new Internet series about a rock, a piece of paper and a pair of scissors who try to get at the answers by talking things through.
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS: A DIALOGUE – EPISODE ONE
THE BEST FILMS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN – BROADWAY DANNY ROSE
BROADWAY DANNY ROSE (1984)
Woody Allen’s marvelous tribute to everything he has ever liked reminds us of what we like about him.
You might think a Woody Allen film is an unlikely pick for a movie you’re supposed to never have seen. Surely, one of the most prolific filmmakers of his generation doesn’t belong in a column about forgotten masterpieces. Maybe so. But even with the buzz over Midnight in Paris, his latest cinematic comeback, it’s well-known that the Wood-man’s movies do not traditionally set the box office on fire, while, in fact, a lot of his post-Manhattan 1980’s work could fall under the heading of underappreciated gems, like Another Woman, Alice, Zelig and The Purple Rose of Cairo. It’s hard to argue against Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors being Allen’s most accomplished works of that decade, but many of the “smaller” titles from that time have joys all their own, and none more so than Broadway Danny. So maybe it’s not one you’ve never seen. See it again, then. It’s great.
SORRY, I JUST NEED TO CHECK MY FEMALE
I’ve been male my entire life, and there are things you get used to. Like knowing that your nipples just aren’t that exciting to anybody. Or the smell of old garlic mashed potatoes in your three-day growth of beard.
Or the fact that you project your male identity onto anything that doesn’t already have a gender. Like words.
Let me explain.
Here is the site where I park everything that is not The Dictionary of Sarcasm or my self-help parody persona Mr. Paul Maul. That means my dramatic short films, reviews of films I like, other writing, and my web series Rock Paper Scissors: A Dialogue. Thanks for stopping by.
