Saturday, July 26, 2008
Dream Journal
A dream: A car crash during a side trip to Hollywood to buy 16mm film makes us late for work.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Trumbo (2003)
Edwards University Town Center 6, Irvine, Calif.
"Trumbo," which I saw tonight at the University 6, is a tired, stylistically wan documentary based on a play by the son of the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo. The narrative is repeatedly interrupted by Michael Douglas, Donald Sutherland, David Strathairn and other actors reciting the screenwriter's letters. They mostly have great voices, except for the doughy Paul Giamatti, but it's beside the point: Instead of playing the voices as narration, the story collapses, the actors drone, the mind begins to wander. Commendable as it was to give a writer his voice through the use of extended quotations, the documentary is better served by existing filmed interviews of the writer than by filling the screen with the big heads of Hollywood actors. Interviews with the children, Mitzi and Christopher, and the likes of Kirk Douglas and Dustin Hoffman, are much more interesting.
"Trumbo," which I saw tonight at the University 6, is a tired, stylistically wan documentary based on a play by the son of the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo. The narrative is repeatedly interrupted by Michael Douglas, Donald Sutherland, David Strathairn and other actors reciting the screenwriter's letters. They mostly have great voices, except for the doughy Paul Giamatti, but it's beside the point: Instead of playing the voices as narration, the story collapses, the actors drone, the mind begins to wander. Commendable as it was to give a writer his voice through the use of extended quotations, the documentary is better served by existing filmed interviews of the writer than by filling the screen with the big heads of Hollywood actors. Interviews with the children, Mitzi and Christopher, and the likes of Kirk Douglas and Dustin Hoffman, are much more interesting.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Dream Journal
A dream: We are sitting in a classroom with Tiana and the young Russian model we seem to be dating. One of the two is a painter; perhaps it is art class. We sit in the back of the room, stage left. Tiana and the Russian model are beckoned by the teacher. They rise, go before the class, and pantomime sex in the empty space at the front of the room. In the corner I notice an empty bottle of vodka.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)
Edwards University Town Center 6, Irvine, Calif.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Laguna Festival of Arts
For the Fourth of July, we watched fireworks in Mission Viejo, in the vicinity of Rocinante, Dulcinea and La Mancha streets.
I tried a Minox shot of some flowers in the window of a coffeeshop currently closed for remodeling. Earlier, a shot of a tiki in Huntington Beach while searching for fish and chips, a typically British meal for the day we celebrate our independence. H. Salt Fish & Chips was closed.
Tonight at the opening for the Laguna Festival of Art I talked to Enrica Marshall, Noriho Uriu, Mariko, Dirk Hagner, Vinita, Donna (who is reportedly in love), as well as George. It was crowded and the music was loud, but it was a good night.
I tried a Minox shot of some flowers in the window of a coffeeshop currently closed for remodeling. Earlier, a shot of a tiki in Huntington Beach while searching for fish and chips, a typically British meal for the day we celebrate our independence. H. Salt Fish & Chips was closed.
Tonight at the opening for the Laguna Festival of Art I talked to Enrica Marshall, Noriho Uriu, Mariko, Dirk Hagner, Vinita, Donna (who is reportedly in love), as well as George. It was crowded and the music was loud, but it was a good night.
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