Should Cinecittà, the legendary Italian film studio, be kept alive by government funds?

I think the answer to one simple question can decide that.

“When does the next really good Fellini movie come out?”

Oh…never, you say? Well…looks like you’re a fucking Walmart then…

As a totally-for-real, bonafide, you-betcha, no-kidding Italian citizen (sure…) I feel justified in saying, “Whoopty Doo!” [...]

My attention span is one of the least focused things in the world. Very little holds my interest: Old broken buildings dissolving into the ground and mirrors – for some reason – my only consistently lasting entertainments.

And so, it is quite right to dream up an illusory award for such other [...]

I caught wind earlier that day, June 9th 2009, that David Byrne was playing a free show as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn concert series in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. I thought to myself…

“God Damn…I love him…”

“I bet there’s gonna be god-awful hipsters everywhere…a sea of sucking humanity…one big coffin…”

“And, of course, I have to mount [...]

That which most confounded me during the DVD era, and seems only so recently resolved, has sprung its head again in the somewhat less brave new world of Blu Ray. For the longest time, some of my favorite films were only available on scratchy, no less than thrice copied [...]