An old friend of mine who teaches at a public high school in Minnesota just got word that he’s inherited a 12-week elective course on film, and he’s reached out to me, asking if I might help him design the curriculum. All that he’s been given to work with thus far is a list of […]
Tag Archives: 1974
Designing the Curriculum for an Awesome High School Film Class: Part One
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1957, A Face in the Crowd, Algeria, Algerian War of Independence, Andy Griffith, Billy Wilder, Blade Runner, bugging, celebrity culture, curriculum, Dan Richardson, documentary film, Donald Trump, Double Indemnity, drifters, Elia Kazan, Eugene McCarthy, film criticism, film history, film school, films, folksy, foreign film, France, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, Gillo Pontecorvo, Glenn Beck, great films, Harrison Ford, Harry Caul, high school, Hot Channels, House Committee on Un-American Activities, Italy, Lonesome Rhodes, M, Martin Stett, Mildred Pierce, neorealist, populism, privacy, red scare, simple truths, small town America, social media, Sunset Boulevard, surveillance, surveillance culture, terrorism, The Battle of Algiers, The Conversation, The Killing, The Night of the Hunter, torture 26 Comments
Which happened first, the death of Elvis or the Ramones’ first show at CBGB?
Two extremely significant events happened on this day in history – August 16… Elvis Presley was found dead in his Graceland bathroom, clutching the book A Scientific Search For The Face of Jesus, and the Ramones took the stage for the very first time at CBGBs, ushering in a new era in American music. While […]
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Uncategorized Also tagged 1977, A Scientific Search For The Face of Jesus, August 16, CBGB, Elvis, Ginger Alden, Ramones 12 Comments
Putting Arlo to sleep with Television, live at CBGB’s in 1974
This evening, while searching around the web for rare recordings by one of my all-time favorite bands – Television… in an attempt to ensure that my new son, like his sister, stays forever out of touch with his generation… I stumbled across the fact that Richard Lloyd leaves comments on YouTube. I’m not sure why […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Arlo, CBGB, Hilly Kristal, Marquee Moon, New York City, New York Dolls, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, punk, Richard Hell, Richard Lloyd, Tom Verlaine 13 Comments