David Chase’s Advice For Aspiring Screenwriters (2009)

“It’s full of cliches, really. First of all, you have to do it. You can’t talk about it, you actually have to just sit down and do it. And that’s very, very difficult. You have to do it, and you … Read More

Locked Groove (Lou Reed Is Dead)

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Film Capsule: Finding Vivian Maier

To know Vivian Maier was not to love her, or even understand her, according to a handful of acquaintances. For above all else, Vivian Maier valued her privacy. Maier spent the majority of her adult years living in close quarters, … Read MoreRead More

Mia Farrow on Losing (1999)

“There have been many losses in my life. I get it now. But I didn’t get it then, that life is about losing, and about doing it as gracefully as possible, and enjoying everything in between – having as many … Read More

Celebrating Two Full Years of Fearing Brooklyn

Well, here we are, exactly two years to the day since I decided to swing out on my own. Good times, a plethora of good times, indeed. And yet, I still feel like there’s so much more for me to … Read More

Galleria: Vivian Maier: Self-Portrait @ The Howard Greenberg Gallery

Vivian Maier was a curious bird – a classic loner, if not a voyeur, who lived vicariously through the veiled lens of her camera. Maier shot more than 150,000 images, many of them black and whites of urban life throughout … Read More

David Shenk on The Infinite Possibilities of Chess (2013)

“It’s so deceptively simple when you’re starting out the game, you can start out by moving a pawn either one square or two squares, each knight can go one of two different places. When you think about it, right from … Read More

Moving On: Things That Go Bump In The Night

My first thought was that it must have been a cat, or perhaps some wandering possum that had slipped in through a window. The sounds fell soft like pattering, occasionally accompanied by the creaking knock a door might make when … Read More

Film Capsule: Dallas Buyers Club

Here is a list of the movies Matthew McConaughey has absolutely kicked ass in over the past two years: The Lincoln Lawyer, Bernie, Killer Joe, Magic Mike, Mud and Dallas Buyers Club. McConaughey is also expected to kick ass in Martin … Read MoreRead More

Joel Meyerowitz on Ephemeral Connections (2012)

“When I think about my photographs, I understand that my interest all along has not been in identifying a singular thing, but in photographing the relationship between things – the unspoken relationship, the tacit relationship, the impending relationship. All of … Read More