Things to Do: HBO Bryant Park Film Festival 6/20 - 8/22
If you live in New York City you know that finding personal space is a constant issue and a luxury that our suburban and mid western brethren take for granted. This is especially true in the throws of summer. From the second you wake in your highly organized but ultimately tiny apartment you are being slowly suffocated. Moments later you’re on a packed subway car where fellow commuters will risk amputating a limb just to squeeze their sweaty body in the three by three inch space between you and a greasy pole; Or get uncomfortably close and breath heavily on your neck while waiting in line to order an overpriced iced coffee. It comes with the territory, and sometimes it’s unbearable while other times you have to grit your teeth and just embrace it.
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9:09 am • 16 June 2011
BONUS: The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
The Panic in Needle Park is one of the most realistic portrayals of a toxic relationship to be captured on film. Not the good kind of Toxic that my girl Brit sings about, but an extremely co-dependent and destructive drug addled relationship. It’s one of Al Pacino’s first films and one of the best performances of his career. This poster is a personal favorite of mine, mainly for the bold tagline and accompanying photo. Check out an old review and some stills here.
12:36 am • 14 June 2011
BONUS: Fellini’s Roma (1972)
HOLD UP, wait a minute. Was the idea of the sexy three tittied mutant lady in Total Recall taken from this Fellini’s Roma poster? Pauly V, you got some ‘splainin’ to dooo!
10:51 am • 8 June 2011
Times Sqaure (1980): Hot Child in the City.
When the Spice Girls landed on our star spangled shores they brought with them a message of platform sneakers, union jack bodysuits, zig-a-zig-ahing, and most importantly GIRL POWER. It’s something that’s lacking in current music and pop culture with the media fueling stories of rivalries, jealousy and copycats. Rodney was right: Can’t we all just get along? (and make fun summer remixes?).Times Square is ALL about girl power and finding confidence in your own voice. Two runaways form a rag-tag hustlin’ duo turned angsty girl band. Nicky Marotta is a scrappy wild child with a raspy voice that I’m convinced is the product of smoking loosies and drinking whiskey since birth. Pamela “Pammy” Pearl is a doll faced poet with an an old soul who rejects her politician father’s idea of beautifying a then seedy jizz soaked Times Square.
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9:16 pm • 6 June 2011
Found Stills: Hardcore (1979)
I feel like you would never see this on a billboard today. I was born in the wrong decade.
9:16 pm • 6 June 2011
Best of Netflix Watch Instantly: Fear (1996)
Fear is like the best movie that Lifetime never made. Honestly they should just buy the rights, change the working title to something like A Father’s Torment and add it to their lineup. I’m thinkin’ somewhere between Mother, May I Sleep With Danger and My Stepson, My Lover. Your welcome! Nicole (Reese Witherspoon) is your standard moody high school girl who wears short skirts to assert her independence and screeches “DAAADDDD, I’m not a little girl anymore!” every time her father says hello to her. She wants so badly to shake things up in her humdrum world. Enter David McCall (Mark Wahlberg). He’s every father’s nightmare: a soft spoken but totally ripped bad boy with a Marky Mark cadence and a violent temper who likes to get freaky on roller coasters. They are a nineties Romeo and Juliet: Nicole from a mundane suburban life and David, a frequenter of raves, bro crash-pad drug parties and… wait for it… he’s an orphan (!!!) Fuccckkk. Hide ya kids, hide ya wife! Their relationship goes sour when Nicole sees David getting extra friendly with her bestie Margo (Alyssa Milano. SCHWING!) but he’ll stop at nothing to win her back. This includes tattooing himself with a Nicole 4 Eva chest piece and trying to kill her whole family. Subtle. Ah, love makes the world go round.
11:32 pm • 26 May 2011
