Andrew Hazlett

Andrew Hazlett

Andrew Hazlett  //  This page is a notepad for ideas, links, and things of interest to me and probably few others. My Internet home-base is at http://www.TheOccasional.org.

I am establishing a cultural commentary and curation website called The New Modern. Visit http://www.TheNewModern.net for more information.

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Jun 19 / 5:27am

Now I'm missing cable TV: Natalie Wood on TCM this month

I've had few regrets since we cut the cord and looked to the internet and old-fashioned broadcasts for all our family's TV-watching.  

The one cable channel I really miss is Turner Classic Movies.  The other day, watching a TV with no sound at the gym, I was captivated by the clips and photos in this TCM tribute to their "Star of the Month" Natalie Wood. Here's the video (with audio) of Robert Redford reminiscing about his high school classmate and frequent co-star.

By the way, TCM has a great website... ample background information on the movies and stars, a lot of community elements, and many ways to dive deeper into the films they feature.  They are doing far more than pumping out a feed of all the films they own.  They're curating a vast library of cultural treasures and presenting them in fresh and compelling ways.

I wish I could tell Comcast to give me just TCM (and maybe a couple other channels too).
Filed under  //  Film   TV  

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Jun 6 / 9:32pm

John Ford's combat footage from the Battle of Midway - June 4, 1942

via vanishedamericana.com

Amazed to see this short color film via Vanished Americana... we forget how bleak and uncertain things looked for the allies in 1942.  Some of the sillier moments in this propaganda film can't mask the fear and extreme violence Ford captured on camera.

Filed under  //  Film   History  

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Mar 1 / 6:48am

Recent Whit Stillman talk about his 1990 film Metropolitan

via whitstillman.org

"Metropolitan" is a personal favorite. Comments from Stillman and also actors Chris Eigeman and Taylor Nichols.  This "slightly squashed" video was posted at the wonderful unofficial Whit Stillman website.

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Dec 24 / 10:53am

A brilliant & hilarious 70-minute video deconstruction of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

via slashfilm.com

By now, you've probably heard about this series of YouTube videos by "Mike from Milwaukee." It's more than an hour of carefully edited clips and furiously intelligent slashing and burning. In the character of a foul-mouthed rambling madman, a perceptive amateur film critic lays out exactly what is so awful about the soulless Star Wars prequel. It's perfect viewing for the holidays... a wonderfully satisfying experience for the whole family (seventeen and older).

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Nov 16 / 7:19am

RIP Edward Woodward: "Shoot straight, you bastards"
via guardian.co.uk

"Shoot straight, you bastards. Don't make a mess of it!"

Filed under  //  Film   Television  

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Oct 28 / 11:20am

Isabella Rossellini in "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" at BOMB Magazine

via bombsite.com

Am I a philistine if I say that it looks as though Ed Wood produced, wrote, and directed this short film by Guy Maddin & Isabella Rossellini? Ed Wood after half a semester of film school, that is.

I certainly wouldn't want to appear middlebrow in front of the folks from BOMB Magazine... maybe it's supposed to be comical?

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Oct 22 / 9:54pm

The Imagine Science Film Festival

I'm a little sad to be missing the Imagine Science Film Festival, now
wrapping up in New York. It is a very interesting effort to bring
visual artistry and storytelling to bear on the problem of
communicating solid information about science. I've seen and enjoyed
many of the shorts in the festival that have been posted on Vimeo.

I hope to get a chance to see some more of the work that has been
featured at the festival.

Filed under  //  Film   Science   Video  

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