ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

The guns & the suicide bombers have been silent for about a year now, so, this New Year's in Sri Lanka (celebrated on 4/14, more on that tradition here ) is a very special one - compared to the 20+/30 or so ones that preceded it. Happy New Year to everyone in Sri Lanka & in the Sri Lankan diaspora world wide! Here's a little bit from what looks like a SL TV news report re: the New Year's celebrations (for those who do not understand Sinhala, the images & sounds/music may be interesting):

Check out the X-Files season 6 episode The Unnatural (available to view on line from Netflix ) if you get a chance, great episode (nice combination of baseball romanticism, an aliens related story, plus a look at a few positive & negative elements of 1940's America). Here's a song from that episode: :: :: :: ADVERTISEMENT Al Maiorino - Italian Genealogy & more! Alfonse Maiorino - Public Strategy Group & more! Alfonse Maiorino - New article   http://alfonsemaiorino1.blogspot.com/2012/04/alfonse-maiorino-new-article.html   http://alfonsemaiorino1.blogspot.com/2012/04/alfonse-maiorino-italian-genealogy-for.html   http://alfonsemaiorino1.blogspot.com/2012/04/alfonse-maiorino-public-strategy-group.html   http://alfonsemaiorino1.blogspot.com/2012/04/alfonse-maiorino-italian-genealogy-blog.html   http://almaiorino.blogspot.com/2011/12/al-maiorino-welcome-to-blog.html Al Maiorino Linkedin :   http://www.linkedin.com/pub/al-maiorino/a/5aa/48b h

All it took me to figure out that Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (exact title?) was not for me was about 20 mins. And then I went & got my refund & headed out to the bright Aspen Hill, MD day. Apparently there is an issue with Greenberg patron watching more than 1 hour of the movie & then wanting a refund. Weird. More here . ::  ADVERTISEMENT Al Maiorino - Italian Genealogy & more! Alfonse Maiorino - Public Strategy Group & more! Alfonse Maiorino - New article   http://alfonsemaiorino1.blogspot.com/2012/04/alfonse-maiorino-new-article.html   http://alfonsemaiorino1.blogspot.com/2012/04/alfonse-maiorino-italian-genealogy-for.html   http://alfonsemaiorino1.blogspot.com/2012/04/alfonse-maiorino-public-strategy-group.html   http://alfonsemaiorino1.blogspot.com/2012/04/alfonse-maiorino-italian-genealogy-blog.html   http://almaiorino.blogspot.com/2011/12/al-maiorino-welcome-to-blog.html Al Maiorino Linkedin :   http://www.linkedin.com/pub/al-mai

UPDATE : I am no expert, but it does look like some of the people in the group are carrying weapons. Very unfortunate that the journalists got shot & killed, either way. :: Here's the intro to the article : "Today, the intrepid folks at Wikileaks released shocking footage of US soldiers murdering 12 innocent, unarmed Iraqis, including two employees of Reuters. Two children were also brutally maimed by the attack. While the incident occurred in the summer of 2007, the military covered up the incident and stymied Freedom of Information requests until the video was recently leaked by whistleblowers." Read the rest of the article & see video at Daily Kos . Also check out MSNBC's article about the same video - a diferent slant on the story that pulls in quotes from military sources.

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Not sure exactly what happened in real life, but Armond White's article/review of Greenberg is a very entertaining read - check it out . Here is a little sample: "Stepping into this Greenberg controversy, Hoberman holds onto his pathetic, unexamined anger. It exposes the hidden conspiracy by him and his backward children (you know who you are) to control film discourse. They give Baumbach the acclaim and attention withheld from less well-connected indie filmmakers. Their defense of Baumbach disguises their reluctance to engage this writer in a forthright discussion of aesthetics; it’s basically a witch hunt. Well, not with me you don’t! As Chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle, I must rise above it. Hoberman’s despotic behavior blurs the line between criticism and gossip—as when disparaging Kael, relentlessly attacking Spielberg for opposing his own ethnic shibboleths or more recently giving traitorous praise to the movie Green Zone for encouraging insurrection in the