HOME

My thoughts on my favorite documentary — Fast, Cheap and Out of Control — are published at Good Letters, the blog of Image journal. 

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

Want to respond? Visit Jeffrey on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.

Share this:

What’s a handheld-camera movie where the shaky-cam technique was a good idea?

What’s a movie where you found yourself shouting, “Enough with the handheld camera already!”
(more…)

Share this:

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. - C.S. Lewis

•

The L.A. Times, In Contention, Hollywood Elsewhere… everybody’s getting worked up because Sean Penn said this about Terrence Malick and The Tree of Life:

I didn’t at all find on the screen the emotion of the script, which is the most magnificent one that I’ve ever read. A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. … Frankly, I’m still trying to figure out what I’m doing there and what I was supposed to add in that context. … Terry himself never managed to explain it to me clearly.

In Contention‘s Kristopher Tapley went so far as to call the comments a “bitch slap.”

Oh, my, how we jump to conclusions. If they’d read farther in the interview, they’d have read Sean Penn saying something that complicates matters: (more…)

Share this:

I took a friend to one of my favorite places on the planet: The Teahouse in Santa Fe, NM.

I took a few pictures of my friend there… (more…)

Share this:

This just in from Laity Lodge…

(more…)

Share this:

Know what this means? (more…)

Share this:

On August 23, I know what I’ll be reading.

Any time a new book has this name on the cover, you can bet I’ll be reading it the day it comes out…. (more…)

Share this:

Sam Phillips’ Long Play experiment was one of the most rewarding experiences of 2010 for me.

Phillips provided so much creative, inspiring music that I hardly had time to learn the lyrics of one album before another one arrived.

The music she recorded in 2010 is still surprising and charming listeners, and this week made that clear… (more…)

Share this:

Here are several fingertips, poking at you until you poke at the links I’ve discovered…  (more…)

Share this:

You never know what you’ll find in the process of open heart surgery.

My wife Anne found one of her best pieces of writing…

(more…)

Share this: