Most people seem to know Molly Parker from Deadwood, but to us she’ll always be the stripping drummer in that movie Paul Auster disowned. In this late nineties TV series set in a dinky Toronto apartment, she’s the hapless girlfriend of Curtis, a cereal-munching talk show addict shut-in played by Don McKellar, who also co-wrote [...]
the funk is its own reward
Fictionaut Blog- Fictionaut Faves, 2/8 February 8, 2010I'll admit I'm an impatient reader these days. I'm looking for stories to delight me with their language, even more so than the story itself. I want each sentence to be like eating popcorn--every kernel a delight to ingest, so you want to keep going to the end. This is why I like Ben Chadwick's "True Love and the Giraffe" so muc […]
- Fictionaut Faves, 2/8 February 8, 2010
- Distracted by Dingleberries
- "Gehr: I caught a [2009 Phish] show at Jones Beach and the Madison Square Garden run. My initial..."“Gehr: I caught a [2009 Phish] show at Jones Beach and the Madison Square Garden run. My initial response was that they were really good fun and solid rock shows, but something was missing. And what was missing for me was a sense of recklessness, that anything-can-happen feeling that used to come with every gig. But now I’m revising that opinion because I ju […]
- "Gehr: I caught a [2009 Phish] show at Jones Beach and the Madison Square Garden run. My initial..."
- About Worldfilm
- Winter's Bone Wins Top Prizes at SundanceDebra Granik's Winter's Bone, a tale about an impoverished teen (Jennifer Lawrence) searching for her meth-cooking father in the Ozarks, won both the grand jury prize for best drama film and the Waldo Salt screenwriting award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival . Based on the Daniel Woodrell's novel, Winter's Bone was Granik's seco […]
- Winter's Bone Wins Top Prizes at Sundance