@mattzollerseitz
I think about this all the time: all those wonderful and needy actors who don’t get voice jobs in favor of millionaire celebrities who kids don’t know anyway.
Hey, here are actresses
@Felissa_Rose
(‘Sleepaway Camp’) and
@Kellimaroney
(‘Night of the Comet’), in the crowd, dancing to Ramones covers performed live at the Summer Drive-In during
#JoeBobsJamboree
RIP Mort Drucker, 91, Mad magazine's master TV and movie (mostly) caricaturist. His incredible art graced such classic satires as "Star Blecch," "Rosemia's Booboo," "Midnight Wowboy," on and on. A personal hero, and a major influence for so many...
Elvis Costello & the Imposters (plus Charlie Sexton on guitar), tonight, at Graceland. (The highlight: a radically rearranged ‘Brilliant Mistake’ that segued into ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams.’)
Here’s White Station senior Janay Kelley, winner of the grand jury prize at the
@indiememphis
Youth Film Fest tonight for her short KINFOLK, which makes use of witness reports gathered after the “Memphis Massacre” of 1866. A repeat winner, she won last year for DEATH OF HIP-HOP.
Serious question: How many votes might Elizabeth Warren lose because people don’t notice the small ‘Race Continued On Next Page’ prompt at the bottom of the electronic ballot?
The gods have a sick sense of humor. This was supposed to be the first night of the Beale Street Music Festival - and the weather is absolutely gorgeous - and is supposed to remain so for the entire weekend.
Today, Elvis Costello hand-delivered his new single to radio station WEVL, for its world airplay debut; tomorrow, he kicks off his 2021 tour across the street from the home of the first Elvis. Story here:
RIP Bryan Hogue, the film enthusiast who co-founded Memphis' Black Lodge Video, which remains one of the country's last surviving and premier 'curated' movie rental stores:
No fiction writer of the past was able to imagine our current dystopia because it seemed beyond belief that the U.S. would elect as president an ignoramus criminal madman.
Holy shit -- Trump falsely accuses Ralph Northam of saying he supports "a newborn baby [coming] out into the world, and wrap the baby, make the baby comfortable, & then talk to the mother & talk to the father and then execute the baby. Execute the baby!"
Huge, angry boos.
Something distasteful about a company spending thousands of dollars to send even nonentities like me free goods promoting the Oscar worthiness of a movie about economic deprivation.
@_katiestebbins_
If you click on the EW link, *all* the images look like that, even the ones not set in a Cenobite underworld. The project to make movies as unviewable as dialog has become unhearable continues apace.
He lived at the drive-in: James Lloyd, a Malco Theatres employee for 54 years, who lived above the concession stand at the Summer Drive-In, died Monday, two hours before his 84th birthday:
This brilliant and beautiful 'Asian Elvis' photograph by Tommy Kha was removed from space dedicated to local artists at the Memphis airport. Expect this to become a national scandal - another embarrassment for Tennessee. Story here:
Speculation is a fool's game. But the presence of this QAn*n slogan among those spraypainted on the walls of Graceland supports the theory that the vandalism was not the work of Black Lives Matter activists but of agitators seeking to *discredit* the BLM movement. But who knows.
Wow:
@memphisnews
will have hired 21 new journalists by the end of the year, meaning that half the staff will be newcomers (to the paper, not to journalism). The hirings were mostly to fill vacancies. but that's a promising statistic that fills me with hope.
SPENCER with Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, a horror anthology from Nigeria, and a documentary on Kenny G are among the 40 or so features set to screen next month during the
@indiememphis
festival:
Cultural vandalism: Presented today by
@fathomevents
, THE MUMMY (1932) was “enhanced” with distracting, ludicrously loud new foley (footsteps, rustling paper); worse, new music was added, so instead of sepulchral silence, Karloff’s resurrection was accompanied by loud music…
Thousands of fans/mourners assembled on the north lawn of Graceland during the Lisa Marie Presley service, looking toward the mansion and the tent that contained the family/friend/celebrity mourners.
The Mr. Rogers doc, WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?, on Friday begins its ninth week at the Ridgeway. An astonishing run for any movie these days, especially a documentary.
Memphis thriller writer Mark Greaney already sells lots of books. But he'll probably sell many times more after THE GRAY MAN with Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling - a $200 million Netflix adaptation of Greaney's first novel - debuts this month:
I typo’ed her name earlier. She is Jordan Dodson, 21, and she led the march with chants, orations, and recitations of the names of the dead for *three* hours.
RIP James Drury, 85, frequent and popular guest at the longrunning, nostalgia-oriented Memphis Film Festival. Title star for nine seasons on TV's THE VIRGINIAN. Worked with Elvis (LOVE ME TENDER), Peckinpah (RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY), Robby the Robot (FORBIDDEN PLANET).
Memphis author Sheree Renee Thomas is the new editor - and first person of color to be editor - of the revered Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, home for 70 years to Asimov, Clarke, Bradbury, Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King:
Confederate statues of Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis coming down in Memphis. Under cover of night, Christmas week. Smart. Now let's get to work on those Sam Phillips and Ida B. Wells replacements.
I heard that NYTimes Sunday magazine interview with Nicolas Cage was good so now I’m reading it and he just out of the blue quoted from one of my all time all time all time favorite movies so - mind blown
Today's Memphis newspaper has a story about a restaurant called Homegirl Café, complete with address and hours of operation in a handy "If You Go" box. A complication is that the restaurant is in LOS ANGELES.
Unlike other Netflix movies, Craig Brewer's DOLEMITE IS MY NAME *will* get a Memphis theatrical release, Oct. 4 at the Malco Paradiso, in recognition of Craig's hometowner status:
Shameless: Already seeing talk of prayers from legislators who make it easier for Tennesseans to get access to guns and then make it harder for shooting victims to get treatment in hospitals crowded with the COVID patients the legislators discouraged from getting vaccinated.
Those infantilizing words ‘wholesome’ and ‘innocent’ seem like a way to diminish Doris Day’s talent and influence. How about ‘smart,’ ‘sexy,’ ‘powerful’?
Fans from across America, new songs, an homage to Al Green, a 'Succession' star in the house: a look at Justin Timberlake's "once-in-a-lifetime" hometown Memphis concert last night:
What the world needs now in addition to love sweet love is very possibly Morgan Neville's documentary about a man whose life's work was a rebuke to incivility, cruelty, greed and - especially - the mistreatment of children. "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" opens Friday at the Ridgeway
All great, but the one that awaits rediscovery is BEAT GIRL - a switchblade slice of post-Elvis, pre-Beatles Britsploitation about a generation itching to lose its head (maybe literally, in a game of chicken on a train track).
I’m excited to be screening the cinematic delights of…
Beat Girl
Belle de Jour
Black Narcissus
Blood and Black Lace
Don't Look Now
Persona
Sapphire
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
The Earrings of Madame de...
Check it out on the
@criterionchannl
very soon x
Never understood the neglect. Place where we saw Dylan, Elvis Costello, Al Green, Ramones, John Fogerty, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Ray Price, Cheap Trick, Midnight Oil, Tom Tom Club, Blondie, Sex Pistols (reunion), the Cranberries, 10000 Maniacs, Crosby Stills & Nash, etc etc
Also, Shelby County *does* have the ability to and *has* in the past included two columns on its electronic ballot pages. So, this was unnecessary as well as confusing.
Malco, Indie Memphis are partnering on the "Indie Memphis Cinema" - devoting one screen full-time at the Studio on the Square to essentially create an art house cinema.
John Singleton was in Memphis quite a bit, especially from 2004-2007, producing HUSTLE & FLOW and BLACK SNAKE MOAN. Always unpretentious, always friendly, always went the extra mile to be helpful, even to a reporter whose presence on set could be charitably described as redundant
Memo to Fathom Events: If you don’t think the 2022 audience is sophisticated enough to handle unadulterated Boris Karloff in THE MUMMY of 1932, don’t book Boris Karloff in THE MUMMY of 1932.
Pre-code queen Dorothy Mackaill in LOVE AFFAIR (1931, no relation to the later McCarey film), one of the many rare Columbia releases suddenly available in pristine condition on Amazon Prime.
Haven't seen Todd Phillips' JOKER. But if you want a movie about a humiliated man who adopts the guise of a clown to ritualistically re-experience his public degradation before plotting violent revenge, may I suggest HE WHO GETS SLAPPED, with Lon Chaney? It's a masterpiece.
I just got off a Zoom call with Steve Martin and Martin Short and I guarantee you as soon as I left the chat those two looked at each other and said "What in hell was up with that poor guy??"
Don Bryant, with the Bo-Keys, doing the song he wrote for his wife, Ann Peebles, "I Can't Stand the Rain." What other NBA city has that for halftime entertainment?
a) Super bummer that Cesar Rosas was ill and couldn’t be with Los Lobos tonight at BPAC. b) Super cool that Memphis guitarist Steve Selvidge was able to step right in and absolutely kill it.
RIP Jack Parnell (father of SNL's Chris Parnell), one of Memphis' most popular deejays and a ubiquitous voice artist in the late '50s to early '70s heyday of rock n' roll radio and local TV: