The 1981 flick “My Dinner with Andre” represented a departure from traditional filmmaking across several different dimensions. No plot, no character development, no cinematography, no tension, and certainly no denouement. At the same time, it’s thoroughly worthwhile.
Author: craigshields
What Motivates Heroes To Become Pond Scum? Hell If I Know.
Re: Michael Flynn, a reader notes: A devolution. Went from “hero to zero.” From protector to villain. From soldier to criminal. Indeed. He pulled a “Giuliani.” For the life of me, I can’t understand why people who have lived lives …
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Improving Our Police Forces
A reader sent me this piece, a statement by a police chief: It’s not the police who need to be retrained, it’s the public. We have grown into a mouthy, mobile phone wielding, vulgar, uncivil society with no personal responsibility …
Tagged with: deaths of unarmed black people
Automotive Engineering Breakthrough?
Here’s a story of some people who developed a product that plugs into a car’s cigarette lighter and enabled them to drive 3300 miles off a single tank of gas. They say, “Its fuel efficiency is off the charts!” Actually, …
Tagged with: fraud
Trump Was “Wrong”
The word wrong here means incorrect. The most important sense of the word wrong when it comes to Trump is unlawful, illicit, dishonorable, corrupt, unethical, foul, and immoral. I’m sure Pence knew this from the start of his relationship with …
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Hunter Biden, a Fox Docu-Series
I suppose this is no laughing matter, but there is something humorous about the idea that a fair and objective documentary on anything could possibly come out of Fox News. This is for morons who put no value on truth, …
Tagged with: Fox News
Amy Goodman, a Voice for Freedom, Equality, Science, Sustainability, and Peace
A few years back, I attended a breakfast meeting at the New York Press Club at which Amy Goodman spoke. And, to be sure, she’s no megaphone for the corporate-owned media. I told her later that I considered her one …
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The Pandemic and the Labor Movement
If there is a blessing associated with the pandemic, it’s the empowerment of the labor movement. When we look around, we can see the precise dynamic at work, i.e., those with low paying jobs, employed/managed by people devoid of compassion, …
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Mini Wind Turbines
When you see artists’ renderings of the same renewable energy concept year after year, and never a photograph of one actually working, this should be a sign unto you, one that reads: This idea has no validity in the real …
We Need To Believe One Side or the Other: Choose Wisely
OK, it’s whom to believe, but this guy makes an excellent point. It’s like so many things in our world today. We’re surround by real estate salespeople opining on the validity of climate science and landscape architects telling us the …
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