I chose the 1975 Academy Awards this week, not because there was a voting error, as I see it, like there was in the 1995 Oscars, but because there were just so many legitimate choices to pick from. You can truly call this the year of Francis Ford Coppola, though. He owned 1974 like...
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Thursday, Sept. 29 – Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music New York playwright Lee Blessing, possessor of a towering stack of theater awards, is known for Pinteresque political plays in which arms limitation negotiators, Central American dictators, and the like faff about the stage uttering oblique profundities. And yet there’s this play, his...
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Thursday, Sept. 29 – Lunch & Learn: Aixa Diaz Unlike most journalism professionals (cough), the vaunted task of being a lady broadcast anchor/reporter for the news division from a local affiliate of a major network brings with it that odd caveat of having to be both presentable and prying, pretty but with teeth. A...
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Fantastic news from the Enzian. In short: Sundance has an initiative in which certain films and their filmmakers, during the Sundance Film Festival, hop on a plane (Southwest, so larger-in-stature auteurs and lesbian actresses beware) and screen them in art houses and host Q&As. It’s the usual suspects: New York, L.A., Boston. And in...
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If you don’t know the music and accolades of Miami based electro-freak Dino Felipe, there’s a chance you haven’t been paying attention. Felipe has around 50 releases (40 are full length albums) all produced at home. Dino’s prowess has attracted the attention of lo-fi recording legends Ariel Pink and R. Stevie Moore and even...
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Paddy Chayefsky’s story for Network, who plays tonight at 9:30 as part of the Enzian’s Cult Classics programming, was one that took a long time to come together, The very basics of the idea stretch back to the late 60s, but took him years longer to research and crack. Americans “American people “don’t want jolly,...
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