I love tv & movies, trashy and arty, old and new, scratched and
pristine. All my life, the screen has tempted me into other lives, and
I've willingly surrendered.
popmatters.com -
the magazine of global culture - lets me write about my obsessions on a
semi-regular basis. I've included a few favorite recent columns below:
Eat, Drink & Kick Ass (July, 2005)
The premiere of TNT's summer contender in the cop show stakes
A Setting Sun? (June 2005)
The premiere of season two of USA's 2004 sci-fi sleeper hit
Umbrella Resistance (May 2005)
The DVD reissue of The Partisans of
Vilna, the comprehensive documentary about Jewish resistance
both in the Vilna ghetto, and also after the liquidation of the ghetto
in September, 1943
Without Haste (March 2005)
The DVD reissue of the one-hour television film which catalogues one
summer in the long partnership between Russian director, Andrei
Tarkovsky, and Italian screenwriter, and long-time Antonioni
collaborator, Tonino Guerra, which culminated in Tarkovsky's threnody
for his life in the Soviet Union, Nostalghia
(1983).
Loose Ends (Nov. 2004)
The premiere of the sixth season of NBC's The West Wing
Fraility of Aspiration (Nov. 2004)
The premiere of Boston Legal,
the fall 2004 primetime TV series from David E. Kelley, creator of The Practice and Ally McBeal
All Taken Away (July 2004)
The DVD release of Martin Ritt's luminous movie of John Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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Lesley
Smith
New
Century College
College of
Arts and Sciences
George
Mason University