@kcfennessy
Music and film writer. Seattle Film Critics Society president and Northwest Film Forum board member. Unions: SAG-AFTRA and IBEW Local 46. Past/present contributor: KCMU/KEXP, KUOW, Rock & Roll Globe, Seattle Film Blog, The Stranger, and Video Librarian.
directors charles burnett and boots riley seated on the cover of film / culture magazine βa rabbitβs footβ
CHARLES BURNETT x BOOTS RILEY
on the cover of A RABBITβS FOOT.
cover story by me! on newsstands 3/14.
Who in Seattle remembers the S.L.U.T.? South Lake Union Trolley missed an opportunity when it rebranded as the South Lake Union Streetcar. Now @metrolosangeles is cashing in on their double entendre attire opportunity with "Ride The D" t-shirts!
This and more on this week's Savage.Love/Lovecast!
it's the air we all breathe now, the cruelly ironic rebound effect of "everybody's a critic"
I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
some people see books as entertainment and other people see books as wily enemies to be humiliated, outfoxed, and defeated
Someone has looked at their polling numbers.
(This won't help.)
A cat *and* a dog. Perfect, thanks!
He is super-freaky in this film.
Daughter tells her father who is preparing to take their cat to the vet: "I don't want Church to get his nuts cut, Daddy."
Church, aka Winston Churchill, is the family cat.
Going in. Read the book, never saw the original film.
If anything, I underrated Agutter's performance. I watched the film a second time with the commentary track, but without the dialogue, and her micro-expressions are a thing of beauty--she can turn on a dime from elation to crushing disappointment at some of the things her older stepbrother says.
I bought a used copy of the Fun City Blu-ray on eBay.
First I've heard of it, thanks!
Agutter is one of many actresses interviewed in the fascinating documentary Sois Belle et Tais Toi! (Be Beautiful and Shut Up!), co-directed by Delphine Seyrig, and itβs streaming on Criterion Channel.
I Start Counting Blu-ray United States 130 Vinegar Syndrome Exclusive / Limited Edition / 2,000 copies Fun City Editions | 1969 | 105 min | Not rated | Nov 24, 2020 Listing: www.blu-ray.com/movies/I-Start-Counting-Blu-ray/276859
Thanks! I'm so glad you did, and I'll correct that figure. The number appears to reference the limited edition slipcover.
We so wish it were still in print here πΏ (we did produce considerably more than 2K copies)!
We are so proud to have wrested the film from
MGM/UA, produced the restoration, Jenny Agutter interview & Samm commentary, & given the film its 1st-ever documented, official physical home video release.
Lots of big WTO/99 screenings in March including Philadelphia, New Orleans, and in IMAX (somehow Iβm not joking) in Tallahassee. Tell your friends!
Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music
Several dozen folks did
Some even dubbed music over the original clip.
I haven't been able to get this out of my head.
So I give you
A Bluesky exclusive:
Reservoir Ducks
π£ πͺΆ
Three donkeys, two dark and one light, walk in line up a mountain road.
NW: Alison McAlpine's meditative Oscar-nominated documentary short Perfectly a Strangeness. Science fiction without the fiction; Skolimowski meets Tarkovsky as three donkeys wander the Chilean desert until they come upon an abandoned observatory. Bonus: a fox! On @criterionchannl.bsky.social. π
A comic strip. One boy threatens to knock down the sand castle of smaller kids. The smaller kid tells him: you wonβt knock it over. When they show what the sand castle is, itβs the twin towers (9/11).
I did not know expect a 9/11 joke in this kidsβ cartoon book
NO NO NO YOU DONβT
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Corinne (Clare Sutcliffe) running towards the condemned prewar home in which her best friend, Jenny Agutter's Wynne, grew up. Wynne and her foster family now live in a flat in the city or "new town" in UK parlance.
My introduction to I Start Counting (screen shot below) was via Kier-La Janisse's Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, which I mention in my review. Says Wm Fowler in the doc, "It's very much about change and inbetween places." On most streaming services, incl. @kanopy.com.
Quinault is also fond of I Start Counting...
For it's pillow-like qualities.
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The Candidate is one of my favourite movies ever and I love that Jeremy Larner was enraged that Dan Quayle said he was inspired by it and made that clear in a 1988 NY Times op-ed thatβs worth reading in full.
www.nytimes.com/1988/10/23/o...
Cover art for The Telltale Heat (1928)
It was here when I moved in, I swear!
Wrestle with demons much?
When I wake up remembering that we culturally made Smash Mouth a thing
Week 9: Book Adaptations (February 26 - March 4)
Setting a Monday mood with more Poe (in silent form) and Jonny Greenwood's extended score of The Phantom Thread.
#OhMyHorror #HorrorSky #FilmSky
#NowWatching π½οΈ
The Telltale Heat (1928)
Without Debraβs support, encouragement and guidance, I wouldnβt have become a producer. #DebraHill was one of my heroines, and I was blessed to have her as my mentor. I miss her so much.
This is exactly right!
On Jenny Agutter's first, rather extraordinary leading role in David Greene's 1970 folk horror/serial killer thriller I Start Counting, a film I'd been meaning to see for years. Happy to say it lived up to my expectations; less happy that it's now out of print in the US. @seattlecritics.bsky.social
