Originally published in the Untitled Magazine on December 15, 2014. The story of Sissy Spacek is a story based on family. It is the story of a poor girl, from Texas, a shy girl, a homecoming queen. It is the … Read More
Author Archives: Bob Hill
Good Pictures/Bad Camera: The Very Best of 2014
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John Cheever on The Old New York (1978)
“These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, … Read More
Nick Cave on The Power of Ideas (2014)
“All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes … Read More
7 Iconic Directors & Their 7 Iconic Movies
Originally published via the Untitled Magazine on October 22nd, 2014. There comes a point in every budding director’s career, usually a few movies in, where the circumstances align to allow for a breakthrough. The backing is there, the level of … Read More
UNTITLED (2014)
No, seriously.
‘America Today’ by Thomas Hart Benton @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jackson Pollock served as a model for several of the male archetypes featured in Thomas Hart Benton’s 10-panel mural, America Today. And Benton, in turn, served as a mentor to Pollock. Given their relationship, one might find it odd that … Read More
Richard Dawkins on Getting Something From Nothing (2012)
“It does violate common sense, but – as I said earlier this evening – you can’t go by common sense. If we could do things by common sense, we wouldn’t need physicists. Common sense, of course, comes from what was … Read More