It's a lovely day for a trip to Long Island City, and from 3 pm to sunset Film Biz Recycling, a new, nonprofit "set dressing salvage and reuse center" offering prop rentals and sales, is hosting an open house.
It's at 43-26 12th St., 2nd floor; for further info, check their website: www.filmbizrecycling.org
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Bicycling in the Cathedral
When Jim, Christine, Mitch, and I rode to the Blessing of the Bikes at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine last Sunday, sans cameras, little did we expect to be prominently featured in other people's online photographs.
Inside (13th photo) Jim's the bearded guy in blue with helmet staring heavenward ("paying more attention to the architecture than the prayer"); I'm in red, Christine in green, and Mitch in blue at right.
Inside (13th photo) Jim's the bearded guy in blue with helmet staring heavenward ("paying more attention to the architecture than the prayer"); I'm in red, Christine in green, and Mitch in blue at right.
In the second Time Out pic (Grace Lin), I'm not smoking, but maybe polishing off a pastry.
Mitch can be seen zipping around the cathedral in the third photo on page 4.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Take the La Didone Challenge
"That was a lot of work," said Jim at the end of La Didone, the Wooster group's mating of the opera of the same name with Mario Bava's 1965 film, Planet of the Vampires. Every second presented multiple choices: do you follow the actors--and if so which; luxuriate in the music; read the supertitles ( English for the film, Italian for the opera, typically one of each available at the same time) ; or watch the screens, one at rear, two at the sides, on which much of the film appears, and sometimes the arm or hand of an actor?
For 90 minutes, it felt as if my eyes and brain never stopped moving. Work, yes, but delightful and delirious.
It occurs to me that those who know Italian would have a leg up in following this show. but would one less series of supertitles to read detract from the challenge of pursuing the stories all over stage and screen? For me, that pursuit was thrilling--and part of the show's point.
La Didone closes on April 26--catch it if you can, but be prepared to work.
For 90 minutes, it felt as if my eyes and brain never stopped moving. Work, yes, but delightful and delirious.
It occurs to me that those who know Italian would have a leg up in following this show. but would one less series of supertitles to read detract from the challenge of pursuing the stories all over stage and screen? For me, that pursuit was thrilling--and part of the show's point.
La Didone closes on April 26--catch it if you can, but be prepared to work.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
A Must Read (and Must See to be?)
After finishing Patricia Volk's delightful novel "To My Dearest Friends" late last night, I'm still basking in the afterglow, and wondering if a film version is in the works. Volk's vivid and memorable characters would provide meaty roles for some great actresses--Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Stockard Channing, perhaps. If Volk doesn't want to do the adaptation herself, I'd be glad to take it on.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
"I don't do fear."
After regaling members and guests of New York Women in Film and Television with stories from her amazing career, Nora Ephron was taking questions. "What is your greatest fear?" someone asked, and weeks later, I'm still thinking about her answer: "I don't do fear."
Thinking about it and saying it, like a fear-banishing mantra.
What I need to start saying is "I don't do procrastination," because I do do it--and am long overdue to mend my ways.
Here goes--"I don't do procrastination."
How about you?
Thinking about it and saying it, like a fear-banishing mantra.
What I need to start saying is "I don't do procrastination," because I do do it--and am long overdue to mend my ways.
Here goes--"I don't do procrastination."
How about you?
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