I started Kill Fee in 2005 as a kind of clearinghouse for writing clips and blog musings, and now four years later I’ve decided to retire the site’s blog aspect. I’m still planning to maintain the homepage as a static site with links to reviews and updates for new articles—so please do check back—but my [...]
I have a short Q&A over at the Museyon Guides website about film and travel, and earlier this week Tom Beer also talked about some of his favorite film moments.
(Tech rehearsal for In the Air screening.)
In the Q&A I mention the last film I saw, which was Liza’s new film In the Air. This [...]
Last month Museyon Guides launched three extremely handsome guidebooks about film and travel. The New York Times recently ran a short piece about the series.
I contributed articles about film locations in San Francisco and Italy, which made for a highly enjoyable research process: The Conversation, Dirty Harry, The Birds, Bullitt, Invasion of the Body [...]
My review of Molly Haskell’s Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited is in today’s Los Angeles Times. And more revisiting here in an interview with Kara Walker at PBS’s Art:21.
Last week it was 1965 and John Cassavetes was driving a French journalist through the Hollywood Hills to his home, snapping his fingers along to the Beach Boys, and joking about making a musical of “Crime and Punishment.”
In the clip below nearly twenty years have passed, but this appears to be the same house from [...]
She just finished work on a picture called “Edge of the City”: “It’s so off-beat and real… and not like most pictures.” John Cassavetes plays bongos while Sidney Poitier grooves.
My review of Sam Staggs’ “Born to Be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life” appears in today’s Los Angeles Times. While revisiting Douglas Sirk’s film I poked around the internet a bit, and here are some findings:
Errol Morris speculates about the Ryberg Electronics label on the packing crates that Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner) [...]
Photo by Anne Etheridge
Anne says that people in Portsmouth are more comfortable really being themselves, really being eccentric, than the people where she grew up in Mississippi. I don’t know if that’s true, but I can see why she said that. I’m pretty sure she said that when we were scouting, right before our shoot. [...]
Some scattered thoughts after finishing, or rather, tearing through Susan Sontag’s Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963. Like others, I was transfixed.
There’s something about how Sontag thinks of the mind that I found kind of haunting: “I must not do all those things so that I will not know these horrible moments when my [...]
Justin Bond has a blog. A taste:
Actually my make-up was wind-swept and tear-stained already after being WHIPPED FROM PILLAR TO POST (OMG -What do you think that aphorism is referencing?) by that asshole Jack Frost when I was walking home from my shrink appointment, but DON’T EXPECT COMPLETE TRUTH in this blog and if you’ve [...]