And in a note of self-promotion, if you should happen to be near a radio tonight around 8, turn the dial to 88.1, WUTC. The local NPR station has asked me, as Pulse movie editor, to begin a 12-week gig reviewing the films in the Bijou Theater's Independent Film Series. So today I'm taking in a 1 p.m. showing of House of Sand and Fog, which I suspect will be depressing, and then I'm compiling some notes about said depression in the late afternoon. And at 8 p.m. I'll go on the air with Joshua Daniels, to talk about Ben Kingsley and what have you. Lord willing, I won't talk too fast, stutter or say something vulgar. I'm pretty excited about this: I even have a natty illuminated pen to take notes in the theater, the sort of thing that might make Rob Gordon unhappy, but pleases me to no end.
Update: If you live outside of WUTC's signal, you can catch Joshua Daniels' show here.
Posted by mesh at February 6, 2004 11:42 AM | TrackBackMesh, you're my hero. I'll try to listen in.
Posted by: steele at February 6, 2004 11:52 AMMesh, that is unassailably cool.
Posted by: gosey at February 6, 2004 04:56 PMDoes the link you gave us have the show archived? If not, do you have a recording that's postable?
Posted by: scott cunningham at February 9, 2004 07:01 AMOh, but that I did. I'll try to start recording the interviews starting next week.
Posted by: mesh at February 9, 2004 09:37 AMMesh, Thanks
Posted by: Alice at February 10, 2004 09:52 AMYour listening audience extends even to the far reaches of Sarasota, where frustrated non-broadband users curse their slow laptops and wait through countless pauses:
"It's really a film...
...that talks about the
...American feeling of...
...entitlement."
So, did you like House of Sand and Fog? I'm hoping it's still in the theater when I replentish the funds that I spent being a movie snob and going to movies at the Sarasota Film Festival.
Posted by: kathryn b. at February 13, 2004 02:51 AMIt's worth seeing, mainly because, as Katie implies, it contains intriguing metaphors about the results of the arrogant American sense of entitlement. Structurally, it's thick with intersecting themes about the societal role of women, the spiritual value of property, and the injustice of vigilantism. But it's far too portentious and drab, and Jennifer Connelly is so unlikable, so darn whiny, that she loses the audience's sympathy in the first reel. Ben Kingsley is spectacular, however.
Posted by: mesh at February 13, 2004 11:48 AM