Posted on September 20, 2014 at 8:00 am
The Yiddish-language stories of Sholem Alechim, collected as Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics), inspired one of the most successful, influential, and widely performed Broadway musicals of all time, “Fiddler on the Roof,” which opened fifty years ago this week. It set the then-record of 3000 performances and still is …
Posted on September 19, 2014 at 8:00 am
Indiewire has a gorgeous array of Instagram feeds from Hollywood cinematographers. Be sure to talke a look so you can follow them.
Posted on September 19, 2014 at 8:00 am
Fast Company has an article about Omni Consumer Products, a “de-fictionalizing” company that looks for products in movies and television that do not really exist and makes them available. As the sole proprietor of Omni Consumer Products, Hottelet is constantly scanning the pop culture zeitgeist for imaginary items that can be “defictionalized,” as he calls it, …
Continue reading “De-fictionalizing Products in Movies and Television: Life Imitating Art”
Posted on September 18, 2014 at 5:59 pm
You can make a good movie about slackers, for example “Slackers,” from Richard Linklater and “Clerks” from Kevin Smith. But you can’t make a good movie by a slacker, and Smith does not seem willing to be anything more. There are flickers of interesting possibilities in his latest film, his first foray into horror. Justin …
Posted on September 18, 2014 at 5:59 pm
B-| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language, sexual content and some drug use |
| Profanity: | Very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Very explicit sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking, drugs, references to pharmaceuticals |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Scuffles, sad death |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | September 19, 2014 |
| Date Released to DVD: | December 15, 2014 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B00K2CI008 |
A toddler carries his little potty out in front of the house so he can try out his new-found skill in public. Twice. Plus another time when the contents of the potty are first displayed for the family and then kind of accidentally tossed onto one of the relatives. This is pretty much the theme …
