Up this week at The Moving Picture Writes is a review of

http://themovingpicturewrites.com/index.php?stn=96433&pageno=9 The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus/Nine

and a new film clip at About Us ("The Eye Altering Alters All"--these will change once a week)

http://themovingpicturewrites.com… Read full post »

http://themovingpicturewrites.com/index.php?stn=96433&pageno=17

I don't often feel huge enthusiasm for the film that wins best picture at the Oscars.They seem to me mostly such timid and compromised choices.

I'm rarely quite so pissed at them as I was in 1972, when I thought it scandolous that T… Read full post »

http://www.themovingpicturewrites.com/?stn=96433&pageno=8 Read full post »

I only became aware of Robert Boyle--one of those names that tends to disappear in the scroll of final credits however many films of note he might be associated with--when I was looking for YouTube clips to link to for a Linnet's Wings essay, Death House Comedy.

I particularly wanted… Read full post »

MWH Projects Firewatcher's Wages.
First new project posted in a while.
(I was having trouble with spam and didn't want to mingle new project postings with that, but it seems to have subsided.)
This is a play about the events leading up to the Oresteia of Agamemnon, from the point of view of… Read full post »

 Fellas I'm Dying Out There!
http://www.ddwebsites.com/runit/?stn=96412&pageno=16&sdb
 

This is another project I'll be developing further on The Moving Picture Writes and, I hope, eventually as a booklength study. 

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/MWH-Projects/156487567714135

At present ceci n’est pas un essai seulement—in ten sections, nine thousand three hundred fifty words, mostly taken up with analyses of films like F for Fake, Vanya on 42nd St, Fellini’s Clowns, which I characterize as &l… Read full post »

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gTDhgR3p12w?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.you… Read full post »

                                                  &… Read full post »

http://orgrease-crankbait.blogspot.com/2009/12/vid-find-wheel-by-martin-heavisides.html 

Find the Wheel by Martin Heavisides

Frequently when writers tell stories in unconventional ways--which may be defined as "ways a particular reader is uncomfortable or unfamiliar with"--they are accused… Read full post »

Years ago back in Saskatoon I was part of the set up and performance of a Winter concert (poetry, music, skits)—Sundog it was called for the rainbows ‘round the sun you can see with particular vividness on a Prairie winter’s iciest days. Two of the organizers’ children were ma… Read full post »

A blaring voice over TTC Speakers--heard it two,three times in my travels up and down--informed riders that at eleven o'clock the subway system would observe two minutes' silence in remembrance of our veterans. It occured to me since the speakers are silent mosty of the time, the only way to indicate… Read full post »

I always enjoy visiting Word on the Street, but it's a very different feeling to be personally involved. I was able to show an actual book to old friends like Stuart Ross at their tables. I was able to inscribe a few copies to actual buyers--not enough to give me… Read full post »

September 6, 2009

Just a note to say THE LIVING THEATRE IN NEW YORK IS DOING A STAGED READING OF MY PLAY EMPTY BOWL ON MONDAY APR 27!!!! sorry, I got a little excited just now. Just had final confirmation today. Don't know how many of you are New Yorkers, but any of you… Read full post »

Impossible to understand the current economic crisis if you take it as a one-off: think of it rather as a high water mark on a crisis wave that crests and ebbs; bearing in mind that the low water mark generates more than enough ruined and outright excised lives to… Read full post »

I don't often feel huge enthusiasm for the film that wins best picture at the Oscars. They seem to me mostly such timid and compromised choices. I'm rarely quite so pissed at them as I was in 1972, when I thought it scandolous that The Ruling Class… Read full post »

1. I have no intention of telling you 25 random things about myself. On the other hand. . .
2. Approached as a compositional idea, it has a certain temptation. . . which is a major revelation about how I approach the creative act of writing.
3. I try not… Read full post »

So there's a plan afoot to reform the British House of Lords by ousting members convicted of felonies:

"A spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice said: 'In the House of Commons, if you break the criminal law or, for example, it's found that although you haven't broken the criminal… Read full post »

dogpressclicky

(This links to a story I've just published there. It might interest any of you who have something dark, funny and flash length you'd care to send their way. --(They did publish A Modest Proposal which exceeds that length, but I think it was a one-off exception.)--)

Baudolino

(Umberto Eco) 

The story of a peasant who rises to power when he's taken under the wing of Frederick Barbarossa, adopted in all but name.

A story full of inextricable ambiguities because Baudolino's special talent is to lie persuasively, and he constructs a tapest… Read full post »