By Ping, For Ping
This year’s Academy Award nominees were just announced on Tuesday and I’m not used to watching them sneakily at work instead of setting an alarm to get up early. Rather than run down all the categories, I’m just going to call out the storylines I’m watching for as the show approaches. I’ve decided from now […]
Release Date:April 4, 1914 Studio:Keystone Director:George Nichols Also Starring:Minta DurfeeEdgar KennedyGordon Griffith Tramp:Yes Worth Watching?Maybe not Whenever we went to new rooms, Charlie would ask the landlady, “Have you got a dark room, ma?” Edith Scales, theatre costume mistress and Chaplin’s touring guardian in youth, quoted in Empire News, 1903
No more schlock. That’s the promise I made myself. I had a lot of growing up to do this year, and one way I had to get that done was going to the movies less. So I made the decision that franchise schlock was not worth going to the theaters. Guardians of the Galaxy 3? […]
Kenneth Anger passed away in May this year. The director is probably most well-known for the 1963 experimental short Scorpio Rising, a film about neo-Nazi bikers set entirely to a soundtrack of contemporary pop music. I discovered it in a film class over 50 years later, and I can tell you it’s still a hit […]
This list is mostly a side effect of next week’s. I’m usually pretty bad at keeping up with new music releases, and when I do I’m (1) not at all adventurous and (2) more interested in singles than albums. Maybe I’m part of the problem. I think the way I engage with music is closer […]
I didn’t play Tears of the Kingdom and I’m tired of starting these posts this way.The new Zelda is by all accounts a masterpiece, an enhancement of everything great about the previous one with new sandbox mechanics seemingly made to be shared on social media. I don’t doubt my friends when they rave about it. […]
Release Date:March 26, 1914 Studio:Keystone Director:George Nichols Also Starring:Minta DurfeeChester ConklinEva Nelson Tramp:No Worth Watching?Not really I showed [A Woman of the Sea] exactly once at one theater … and that was the end of that. The film was promptly returned to Mr Chaplin’s vaults and no one has ever seen it again. Josef von […]
Release Date:March 16, 1914 Studio:Keystone Director:George Nichols Also Starring:Roscoe ArbucklePeggy Pearce Tramp:Yes Worth Watching?No The moment we met we ignited; it was mutual, and my heart sang. How romantic were those morning’s turning up fro work with the anticipation of seeing her each day. Chaplin, My Autobiography
Release Date:March 9, 1914 Studio:Keystone Director:Mack Sennett Also Starring:Roscoe ArbuckleFord SterlingMinta Durfee Tramp:I don’t think so Worth Watching?Nope Keystone comedies directed by Sennett are perhaps the best examples of the studio’s true vision. Tango Tangles is particularly boorish and violent, while the characters are merely one-dimensional caricatures. Oddly enough, this is precisely the brilliance behind […]
This is very last-minute, but I’m watching the clock count down to the start of the ceremony and feel compelled to just throw this out there. I haven’t been keeping up very closely with the races because I’ve been too focused on other things the last couple of months. These predictions are fun to make, […]