My piece for the Scarecrow blog this week, and etc.
A Re-Introduction to Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
Join us for another free online session of Scarecrow Academy on Saturday, April 9, at 2 pm Pacific Time, as we talk about Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It’s part of “The Art in Sci-Fi: Science Fiction and the Director,” and I intro the movie and director below. Please note the fantastic screen grab.
For Crosscut, I recently wrote a profile of the pioneering (and now 95-year-old) documentary filmmaker Jean Walkinshaw. Read that here, and see some recommendations for specific Walkinshaw titles that are now part of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. This project was conceived by my friend Tom Keogh, who died in September, and I was honored to complete it.
I don’t have a new radio episode of “The Music and the Movies” this week, but you can catch a re-run of the one about Beach Party movies (and some related titles). It happens to be one of my favorite episodes. Please listen here, and – cowabunga?
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