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Designing the Curriculum for an Awesome High School Film Class: Part One

By Mark | August 1, 2019

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 […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1957, 1974, 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, 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

Jackson Hole, Wyoming, having won the bid to host Monkey Power 18, exceeds expectations

By Mark | October 20, 2013

I’ve been in Wyoming these past few days, at the annual meeting of my one-day-a-year band, the Monkey Power Trio. This, I believe, was our 18th session. It was neither the worst, nor the best. All things considered, I’d say that it was positive. Many laughs were had. No one cried. No one screamed. No […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Photographs, Uncategorized | Also tagged 86, Adobe Bricks, Andy Calder, Ansel Adams, B.B. King, Bohemian Rhapsody, buffalo, Chocolate Chuck, cocaine, Cold, college radio, crazy ideas that just might work, Devil Man, Dick Cheney, Government Camp, government shutdown, Grand Teton National Park, heavy metal, I am Infinite, iPhone, iPhone apps, Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole Music Experience, King Strang, Lake Tahoe, Mark's big ideas, Monkey Power Trio, moose, Mormon, Mormon Row, Naia Venturi, Patrick Elkins, Pete Larson, polygamy, rock camp, rock opera, Sandra Bullock, Tahoe, Teton Range, Toccoa, unflattering portraits, vacations, Walt Whitman, Wyoming | 12 Comments

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