JLG IN USA

A shirtless and sun-hatted Jean-Luc Godard urges you to read my latest foray into TCM land, a reaction to the great DVD bundled with the March/April issue of The Believer (which also contains some of my twaddle). He's urging you to click. How could you resist those pecs?

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And I realize that I've used this august space more for linkage than the hard-hidding original content you're used to. There's nothing to be done. Although I'll be sure to post a hyperbolic response to Crank: High Voltage in the coming week. It is my movie event of the year, and all.

TCM Time

Check out the dangerous Movie Morlocks blog for my daring and dangerous post about TCM's 15th anniversary. I show the courage to discuss verboten stories involving my father and Fritz Lang. It crosses mulitple lines of respectability and good taste. Scandalous!

Oh, and don't ask me about my fantasy basball teams. I will just respond with bromides about how long the season is and regression to the mean. In short, I'm a miserable failure.

The Warner Archive

Head on over to TCM's Movie Morlocks blog to get my take on the three Warner Archive films I bought: Leo McCarey's 1942 propaganda-comedy Once Upon a Honeymoon (see above), Jacques Tourneur’s 1955 ‘Scope Western Wichita, and Budd Boetticher’s 1958 Westbound.

Movie Morlocks

For those of you who can't get enough of me, I've started writing for TCM's blog, Movie Morlocks. I'll have a post up every Tuesday, starting with today's piece on Raoul Walsh's magnificent Me and My Gal, from 1932. It's all terribly exciting, and I'll be free to write on just about anything. It'll be just like Termite Art, only more Morlock-y.