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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, Harrison Ford, Harry Caul, high school, Hot Channels, House Committee on Un-American Activities, Italy, Lonesome Rhodes, 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

In a Plain Martha Wrapper

By Mark | August 19, 2002

Linette and I went to Borders yesterday. The plan was to stop in and buy a guidebook for Italy (where we dream of going, when we can afford it) and then to head over to Starbucks for a coffee (which we like to drink when we can afford it). When we first walked in to […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Media, Retail, sex | Also tagged 1932, 8th Circle of Hell, Amazon, Borders, Brown Jug Restaurant Line Cook convention, Charlie Sheen, clitoris the size of a standard index card, Cosmopolitan, Criterion Collection, Dockers, evolution of porn, Fritz Lang, Germany, hard-core porn, magnified to comic proportion, Martha Stewart, masturbation guard, movie review, National Geographic, paperback romance, Penthouse, Peter Lorre, Playboy, scanning for ex-girlfriends and physical, serial killers, Spy Kids, Star Fleet, Star Trek, Starbucks, Start Trek the Next Generation, the canals of Mars, Wesley Crusher, Wil Wheaton, Xtreme Caligula | Leave a comment

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