As you may have heard, I've started a new blog (as of yesterday) on tumblr because it's cleaner and better then what I do here and I've felt increasingly annoyed with Weebly. I encourage you to bookmark, then, joelgarber.tumblr.com to keep up with all of my beeswax. I'm sure I'll still manage to keep this site active though, so don't get too bent out of shape, as Frank Zappa would say it's just words.
Happy Thanksgiving friends. Enjoy it with this NYT slideshow documenting the evolution of Abraham Lincoln's beard.
'Pablo Picasso is supposed to have kept a boxful of Lincoln photographs and engravings in his studio, exclaiming to a visitor, 'There is the real American elegance!'”
I'm giddy to learn that Criterion is releasing America Lost and Found: The BBS Story, a seven disc box set of films from 1968 to 1972 produced by the team of Bob Rafelson, Burt Schneider, and Steve Blauner (BBS). Some classic titles (Easy Rider, The Last Picture Show, Five Easy Pieces) and some obscurer stuff (including Henry Jaglom's A Safe Place with Orson Welles and Jack Nicholson, and Head, the Monkees psych epic) all graced by the signature Criterion treatment. Long live American cinema!
Screening November 13th at Cinefamily: "Tonight, in a show originated at Austin, Texas’s Alamo Drafthouse, we’ll be celebrating the absolute finest in on-screen annihilation with a non-stop nightmare of intestine-ripping, head-bursting, unrepentant baby-eating and other crimson-soaked savagery!"
