What does the fox say? Find out 2/5/15
53 is
- The maximum number of players on a National Football League roster (and all of the players are Union members!)
Linklater’s “Boyhood”: yay or nay?
Usually I agree with the reviews that Ron Wells does on a somewhat regular basis here on Art Predator. I guess if I disagreed with them more I’d not be as likely to publish them! But when it comes to Boyhood by Richard Linklater, I agree more with the Academy than with Ron:Boyhood is up for six Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Ethan Hawke), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Patricia Arquette), Best Director (Richard Linklater), Best Film Editing (Sandra Adair) and Best Original Screenplay (Richard Linklater). It’s already won the Golden Globe Award Winner for Best Picture for Drama and Patricia Arquette is the Golden Globe Award Winner for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture and Richard Linklater is the Golden Globe Award Winner for Best Director.
Review of Boyhood by Ron Wells
I saw Boyhood the week it opened and was very excited.
I walked out wondering what I had missed.
Why the accolades from virtually everyone? Not that it’s a bad film; it’s not. It’s just that there is no there…. there. I marvel at Linklater’s ability to hold the cast and crew together and paint a portrait of a boy’s growth over twelve years of filming off and on. He even got some of the nuances right (Mason doesn’t always finish things he starts, for example.) Ellar Coltrane did a remarkable job of acting.
Other than that, what am I watching for 2 hours and 45 minutes? I was looking at my watch after 2 hours and 10 minutes and wondering how much longer this would go on. It just seemed empty.
Like Kenneth Turan of the LA Times, I was much more taken with Michael Apted’s documentary series, Up, where real people’s lives took interesting and surprising changes of growth and disposition. Even when they were young.
What’s your take? Do you agree with me or Ron? How would you vote it you were a member of the Academy?
Help Bottle at Cantara Cellars Jan 31
Will you work for wine? If so, give Cantara a call!
If you’re not attending ZAP this weekend in SF, and if you’ve ever wondered how wine gets into the bottle, or if you’ve ever wanted to be involved in bottling wine or experience the workings of a winery, tomorrow is your chance
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Protected: Rangers Tarot Deck
Still no Mexican authors at Chipolte Mexican Grill…
The fast food chain Chipolte Mexican Grill prides itself on offering fresh, quality food and beverages in a thoughtful and thought-provoking wrapper.
Last year, Chipolte introduced “The Cultivating Thought Author Series.” Read more…
This Saturday, January 31, The Flying H Theater Group presents the first installment of “Is that a poem in your pocket or are you just happy to hear me?”
And I am one of the featured poets!
Writing and The Teflon Mind
The uninstructed person ages like an ox.
His bulk increases but his insight does not.
The Dhammapada translated by Glenn WallisAn untrained mind is a velcro mind.
A Buddha mind is a teflon mind.
Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi
So here it is almost midnight. For the past week, at this time, I have been hustling to get a blog post up. Read more…
53 Interesting Facts About the Number 53:
#3 53 is the racing number for Herbie the Love Bug Read more…
What’s in your lunchbox? How the #yourturnchallenge surprised me
My 6 year old son on one of the first days of school 2010 with his Scooby Doo Lunch Box.
What’s in your lunch box?
I wanted to know what was in my lunch box.
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