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January 14, 2012 New Z (www.ziscoming.com)

Hey – check out Z, which was just released on the web a few days ago! Z, produced by Alyson Weaver and Justine Bateman, is directed by esteemed director Jared Drake, and carries a score by myself.

Everyone vote, comment and like it! I would love to see this become a feature project!

For more info on the film, please visit: http://zthefilm.tumblr.com/

December 8, 2011 Finale Forum spotlight

A great article/interview with Rick Giovinazzo.

http://blog.finalemusic.com/post/2009/12/03/Finale-User-Spotlight-Rick-Giovinazzo.aspx

October 17, 2011 thank you, XLN

this is how to write instructions for installation/un-installation.

Great FAQ, no need for a forum.

http://www.xlnaudio.com/support-faq.php

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September 28, 2011 Nature – on Amazon.com

Hi blogger friends – a film I scored, Nature, is now available for purchase on Amazon.com. Very thrilled that this is happening, and a big hearty congrats to the folks over at Pickaresque for signing with Vanguard Cinema. Buy the film, or request it at your local video store if you haven’t seen it!

A review on Quiet Earth: http://bit.ly/1bUJZ5

The Amazon listing: http://amzn.to/oXejE1

Vanguard Cinema listing: http://vanguardcinema.com/nature/nature.htm

My writeup last year: http://thelinusblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/nature/

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September 26, 2011 Congrats Vince and Rabia!

Went to San Diego this weekend for some wedding fun and Indian food! Wiped out.

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September 6, 2011 100 Rifles (’69)

Several friends and a few of my students have asked me about this film. It actually started out wonderfully and had some snappy dialogue scenes between Burt Reynolds and Jim Brown, but ultimately the story is absolutely non-existent. Even the presence of the great Fernando Llamas could not save this weirdly uneven script.

Also – super annoying that the Spanish segments aren’t subtitled – as if to self-reflexively reveal that the script lines were completely meaningless.

Controversial or not – for being the first film to show an interracial sex scene – I think this movie was quite a bore. Raquel Welch was attractive enough to get guys into the theatre, I suppose. Even her death at the end was so ineptly directed I almost missed it. You see a glimpse of Welch actually moving her head right before the scene cuts away and reveals in a close-up that she had been shot. One wonders if she actually had a line before she croaked and the producers were forced to eject the line for bad acting.

It is important to note that Soledad Miranda died a year after this film was made.

August 31, 2011 50 Fun Things for Professors to Do on the First Day of Class

Butterly hilarious! Utterly butt larious!

http://web.archive.org/web/20020618212825fw_/http://www.troutman.org/humor/prof.html

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August 19, 2011 Urban legends about film and TV’s first ‘interracial kisses.’

I just wanted to put to rest the “urban lie” (Coen & Coen) concerning the first interracial kiss in film as occurring in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967). Even film textbooks cite this example, but people, this isn’t even the first time a black man kisses a white woman in a film at all.

Have we forgotten Kubrick’s Killer’s Kiss (1955)?

And just four years after that, we have (gasp) an Asian man kissing a white woman in The Crimson Kimono (1959). This film is a great example of a “mainstream-noir” redressed with modern casting sensibilities. I show this in my film class every other year.

SPOILER ALERT – this is the end scene.

Yes, yes – technically Killer’s Kiss and The Crimson Kimono were fringe films in its day. But if that were the way we were measuring these milestones, why do we not remember Sammy Davis, Jr. kissing Nancy Sinatra on NBC, which (I am quite sure) more people watched than Star Trek!

ARTICLE:

http://www.retropolis.com/blog/black-history-month-first-interracial-kiss-network-television

** Addendum – I just realized someone deleted the video attached to the above article. If anyone has seen the video clip of Sammy and Nancy, please send it my way! – L.

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July 11, 2011 Silk Stockings (’57)

Probably my favorite movie at the moment. So awesome!

I will be showing it this term in my Film 1 class, but not sure wether to put it with the cinematography lecture or the sound lecture.

Long live Astaire and Charisse.

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June 9, 2011 Butterfly

I learned today that the Dutch word for the animal is very, very different than the German.

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