★ Confessions of a Mad Filmmaker
Intolerance Lives
March 9, 2011
On Saturday night I went to the Colossal Spectacle: Boister performing an original score to D W Griffith’s 1916 film…
SEE THESE MOVIES NOW
March 2, 2011
Matt Porterfield’s Putty Hill opens Friday, March 4, at the Charles. The Putty Hill's opening night gala party is…
Conflict Theory
February 23, 2011
On Friday, March 4th, Matt Porterfield’s PUTTY HILL will enjoy its official Baltimore premiere at the Charles. Everybody in…
COMEDY NOIR
February 16, 2011
The Comedy Noir comic-apocalyptic point of view refuses to pull its punches. It does not allow us to feel reassured,…
Better Living Through Chemistry Part 2
February 9, 2011
The First Kiss launched a thousand clichés in the minds of the lovers. While apart, they incessantly turned thoughts of…
Better Living Through Chemistry
February 2, 2011
Here’s what happens when two people fall in love: cliché abounds, of an ominous nature. They don’t climb upward into…
Sound and Fury Signifying… Oscar.
January 26, 2011
The Oscars are silly but I love them anyway, so here’s my contribution to the water cooler discourse. I would…
Let’s Mess With Texas
January 19, 2011
Many of the two-hundred-plus people gathered at MICA for the CreateBaltimore event on January 15 were hacker/ techies, so tons…
Comedy Noir
January 12, 2011
Sexual deviance, death, stupidity, mental illness, brutality, murder: don’t you love ‘em? I do, but not in the form…
SCREEN PASS
January 5, 2011
Around this time of year I receive advance screening DVD’s of hopefully award-worthy movies. I get them because I’m in…
Lunatic
December 29, 2010
I am a bit of an eclipse nut. I have seen five total solar eclipses, including one in the Atacama Desert…
19 Degrees in the Shade
December 16, 2010
The winter solstice is coming, and Christmas. Pagan, Christian, Viking Yule, The Hopi Soyal, the Asian Dongzhi: all the northern…
Waldorf Hysteria
December 8, 2010
I can find all kinds of important things to do when I should be editing my film or writing. And…
Experi-mental Film
December 2, 2010
Digging around in the archives I found an experimental film I did at UCLA. I was there getting a master’s…
Migrating Memory
November 24, 2010
I’m a late adopter, by design, and so I am just getting around to messing with services like Vimeo. There’s…
The Renaissance Will Be Televised
November 17, 2010
In two days I had to start shooting the movie – a low budget indie, yes, but a complicated one…
Gimme Sex and Violence
November 10, 2010
Over time, many well-meaning people and institutions have reasonably argued, for the betterment of society and mankind, that the Bible…
Campus Television, Redefined
November 4, 2010
Motion pictures show us amazing places and events. Film, TV, digital video, time-based media—whatever we call it is unimportant. It’s…
Locus of Evil
October 20, 2010
It’s that time of year for spooks, monsters, witches, and gore: the mid-term elections. But in the meantime, we can…
Goody Two-Shoes and Chicken Feet
October 13, 2010
She was only a teenager. They called her Goody Two-shoes. But the pretty over-achiever snapped, and stabbed her neighbor to…
