Just a few short weeks after the TCMFF 2023 schedule was revealed, now the festival itself has come and gone! Until next year. As usual, I made a post of my picks ahead of time, even though I know from experience they will always be somewhat speculative until I get on the ground. It’s still …
Happy festival season, all! When prepping this, I read back over a few of these planning posts from years past, and marveled a bit at how infrequently they match what actually happened. For me, the planning stage here is usually very logical: I devise an indisputably perfect system that results in the optimal balance of …
My choices for the TCMFF 2022! There’s a lot to celebrate: after going through well-produced but not-quite-the-same virtual festivals in 2020 and 2021, the theme of this year’s festival is appropriately “All Together Now: Back to the Big Screen.”
This weekend, the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation (LAHTF) hosted their first in-person theater tour in more than a year, this time going behind the scenes with an enthusiastic, socially distanced crowd at the Hollywood Legion Theater at the American Legion’s Post 43. Both LAHTF and the Legion Theater have made exceptional strides in pivoting …
It’s hard to believe that it was just over a month ago that they announced the Hollywood edition of TCMFF 2020 was cancelled. The world of early March—in which the prospect of gathering a large group of people in an enclosed space was a hopeful, non-terrifying idea—seems like a completely different time now. Looking back …
So. It’s been a little quiet around here, yes. But I feel like I have a slightly good reason: at the end of this year, assuming all goes to plan, I’ll be precisely halfway through my PhD program in Cinema and Media Studies. The program has substituted much of my impulse(/motivation) for blogging, as the …