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My 2025 Personal Film Festival, Part 1

On the evening of January 4, 2025, my wife Nell and I watched Saturday Night. Jason Reitman’s 2024 film chronicles the final 90 minutes before the first episode of what is now called Saturday Night Live aired at 11:30 pm EST on October 11, 1975. We thoroughly enjoyed the film’s you-are-there verisimilitude, strong performances and … Continue reading My 2025 Personal Film Festival, Part 1 →

Matt Berger Alphaville, Andrei Tarkovsky, Atheism, Back to the Future, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chan, David Fincher, David Lynch, Elevator to the Gallows, Eraserhead, Film, Inland Empire, Ivan's Childhood, Jean Cocteau, L'Age d'Or, Last Year At Marienbad, Le Samourai, Louis Malle, Luis Bunuel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marx Brothers, Miles Davis, Mirror, Mulholland Drive, Murder on the Orient Express, My life, No Country For Old Men, Nosferatu, One Hundred Years of Cinema, Salvador Dali, San Francisco, Saturday Night Live, Sidney Lumet, Solaris, Stalker, The Blood of a Poet, The Cinema Cartograpy, The Color of Pomegranates, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Game, The Hunger Games franchise, The Sure Thing, Wild at Heart, Zodiac 3 Comments May 7, 2025May 14, 2025 14 Minutes

Dispatches from Brookline: Home Schooling and Social Distancing XIII

I have described elsewhere how my wife Nell, our two daughters—one in 4th grade and one in 6th grade—and I were already coping with social distancing and the closure of the public schools in Brookline, Massachusetts until at least May 4, 2020. Besides staying inside as much as possible, we converted our dining room into … Continue reading Dispatches from Brookline: Home Schooling and Social Distancing XIII →