Polymath's Guide to News and Ideas
When Art, Sexuality and Religion Collide, What is the Role of a Film Festival?
ALL THESE WONDERFUL THINGS :When news broke earlier today on Mike Jones' Circuit blog at Variety that Rich Raddon, the embattled leader of the Los Angeles Film Festival, had once again submitted his resignation to Film Independent -- and that the board of FIND had... READ MORE
Findings from the streets, files, and hard drives of New York.
NEW YORK MAGAZINE :Below, plot secrets from the Twilight series of teen-vampire novels, as revealed by anonymous vandals on a poster advertising the Twilight movie adaptation—which opened last Friday—on the outbound 23rd Street–Ely Avenue E/V subway platform in Queens... READ MORE
Web Sites That Dig for News Rise as Watchdogs
NEW YORK TIMES :Over the last two years, some of this city’s darkest secrets have been dragged into the light — city officials with conflicts of interest and hidden pay raises, affordable housing that was not affordable, misleading crime statistics... READ MORE
Who Will Quit Hollywood Next?
NEW YORK MAGAZINE : Acting in solidarity with laid-off workers, Hollywood's pampered actors are quitting their well-paid gigs for less glamorous ones: Joaquin Phoenix quit acting for music... READ MORE
Review: Australia, the movie
TIMESONLINE | ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT :It has every Australian cliché you could hope for, from kangaroos and Nicole Kidman to aborigines going walkabout and, yep, Waltzing Matilda... READ MORE
The Dread of Failure: On Desplechin and Kaufman
THE NATION : We make time: by flirting or declaring a break, by observing holidays or arranging the passing moments into music and theater... READ MORE
How Obama helps Batman
OSCAR-WATCH.EW.COM : Usually I'm not the kind of guy who thinks that outside events have too much influence on the Oscar race. I generally think it's about the movies, more or less in a vacuum... READ MORE
Ceaseless Spirit
WWW.NEXTBOOK.ORG :Not since the death of François Truffaut (may his memory be for a blessing) has France had a filmmaker quite like Arnaud Desplechin. Respected yet popular—or the other way around... READ MORE
The films President-elect Obama should watch
GUARDIAN :The Candidate is a 1972 political saga that stars Robert Redford as a charismatic, inexperienced liberal who winds up unseating a grizzled old conservative... READ MORE
The dead and the quick
GUARDIAN :As an avid horror fan, I found the prospect of last week's five-night TV zombie spectacular rather exciting. Admittedly... READ MORE