KPBS Film Club reviews “Shutter Island,” “Red Riding Trilogy,” “Une Prophet,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Ghost Writer” and Oscar
March 10th, 2010 by Scott Marks
I don’t think the bookworm liked me.
Jerry Griswold, the director of SDSU’s National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, was on to talk about the differences between Lewis Carroll and Tim Burton. Instead of giving me a vacation, Griswold came out swinging all because I nice things to say about the 3-D version of “Alice in Wonderland!” Made for grate radio!
My favorite shows are when Beth and I disagree on everything and today was one such example. Beth didn’t even like the Oscars and her thoughts on “Shutter Island” made me shudder!
If I seem more hurried than usual you have Marty to thank. Wanting to ensure that we didn’t go over and bump the “Shutter Island” review, I tried my best to be brief. So did our producer Angela Carone who kept the segments flying at a brisk pace in order to allow time to pay my respects to Him. The three listeners who actually put stock in my opinions needed to hear them.
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KPBS Film Club reviews Oscar noms, “44 Inch Chest,” “Police, Adjective,”"The Last Station” & “A Town Called Panic”
February 3rd, 2010 by Scott Marks
A scene from “Police, Adjective.”
Today marked a first for KPBS-Radio. There were more edits, 11 to be exact, in one thirty-second cip than ever in the station’s history. It sounded like Morse code.
You have John Hurt, “44 Inch Chest’s” Old Man Peanut, to thank for all the cussing and cutting. It wasn’t the only film Beth and I agreed on. We were both impressed by the Romanian policier “Police, Adjective.” In its own way the quiet, deliberately paced film is one of the most intelligent arguments for marijuana reform I’ve seen.
We also agree that “The Last Station” amounts to little more than good acting at its finest, and all of our Oscar predictions appear to jibe. THere must be something that we butted heads over. Oh, yes. Anyone who finds humor and fun in “A Town Called Panic” should be sentenced to sit in the corner of a mental institution and blissfuly rock back and forth in their own waste.
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