Sparrow's Yearly List of the Best Films

By Sparrow 02/25/09

Avid blog-watchers wait each February for the 10 Best Films of the Year in “Quarter to Three” (this blog). As you probably know, I only see about 10 movies per year, so I’m happy to compile them into a list.

Woodstock Film Festival Part Three: An Interview with Tom Gustafson

By Sparrow 02/24/09

Sparrow: Best Music in Nashville! Jesus!

Gustafson: Yeah.

Sparrow: That’s a coup!

The Woodstock Film Festival (2008), Part Two: The Movies I Actually Saw

By Sparrow 10/28/08

The Woodstock Film Festival (2008)

By Sparrow 10/22/08

My Conversation with Laurie Anderson

By Sparrow 08/21/08

Sparrow: At the Gator Growl, the pep rally. He would begin a song, then he’d stop himself and tell one of the dumb jokes his writers handed him. He was great.

Anderson: I wish I had writers.

Bo Diddley In History

By Sparrow 07/06/08

Tombstone hand and a graveyard mind;
Just 22 and I don’t mind dying.

Flo Rida

By Sparrow 05/23/08

“Flo Rida,” incidentally, is a brilliant name-invention. Rap is about “flow”: the organic movement of words.

The 10 Best Films of 2007

By Sparrow 01/21/08

Perhaps here is a good place to reveal my palindrome about the Coen brothers:

No Coen’s neocon.

John Ashbery's 80th Birthday

By Sparrow 12/20/07

Yes, they are alive and can have those colors,
But I, in my soul, am alive too.

Laura Bush Visits Abu Dhabi

By Sparrow 11/20/07

First Lady Laura Bush meets with breast cancer survivors in pink tent…

Woodstock Film Festival: The Second Day

By Sparrow 10/12/07

(I know one doesn’t typically speak of movies having authors, but believe it or not, someone wrote each one of them.)

Woodstock Film Festival: The First Day

By Sparrow 10/11/07

And so once again
Oh, America my friend
And so once again
You are fighting us all

Eating Disorder

By Sparrow 09/21/07

Eating Disorder

I am
eating
disorder.

Alex Katz

By Sparrow 06/20/07

“I don’t like the portrait of Denby,” my friend Tom said, as we walked through the show. “He looks so angry!”

Cheney At Home

By Sparrow 05/18/07

Cheney: Hey, Bob, this is Dick. Cheney. How the hell are you?

The Almighty Dollar

By Sparrow 03/29/07

Quotation

“I wear a cross around my neck because I love right angles.”
- Lana Turner

Paint-By-Letters

By Sparrow 03/09/07

Have you heard this new expression: “Sometimes I feel like a Marxist at Wal-Mart”?

Sparrow's Seven Favorite Films

By Sparrow 02/23/07

Which movies of 2006 got the coveted Golden Egg?

All Saints

By Sparrow 02/20/07

All saints are curious about…

After Super Bowl

By Sparrow 02/15/07

A thought on Super Bowl Sunday.

Not Everyone

By Sparrow 01/28/07

Poems and pointed prose from Sparrow.

Wavy Gravy

By Sparrow 12/29/06

Sparrow meets countercultural icon Wavy Gravy at the Woodstock Film Festival.