Monty Wolfe
A Decade of Cinema
I started the decade in a cinematic (and spiritual) crisis. My relationship of convenience was crashing to the ground like the Death Star...
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Monty Wolfe
- Dec 18, 2019
- 6 min
The Intentional Inauthenticity of Period Costumes in Hollywood Films
While the mechanisms of cinema reach forward for advancements and innovations, where story and spectacle are concerned, there has always...
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Monty Wolfe
- Dec 18, 2019
- 12 min
Timothée Chalamet and Hollywood’s Evolving Masculinity
In 1995, hot off the heels of his Oscar nominated role in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, American film actor Leonardo DiCaprio starred in...
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Monty Wolfe
- Jun 14, 2018
- 4 min
Oceans 8 rambling review
Lemme just start with this - I could watch Cate Blanchett tap on a brioche bun for 6 hours and be thoroughly entertained. She is...
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Monty Wolfe
- Feb 11, 2018
- 4 min
Actors
I think there are all kinds of directors out there, and each one brings something special to the world of cinema. Some love stories,...
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Monty Wolfe
- Feb 9, 2018
- 2 min
Older Testament
I just feel like I need to write - but I don't really have anything to write about right now - so I'm going to do some free association -...
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Monty Wolfe
- Feb 2, 2018
- 3 min
Rabbits & Treasure
(God's Own Country, dir Francis Lee) I've been waiting impatiently for the Blu-ray release of God's Own Country - the achingly frank gay...
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Monty Wolfe
- Feb 1, 2018
- 12 min
How Love Will Save Us All
Post-humanism or How Love Will Save Us All In the 1990’s, when the first stirrings of the gay marriage debate started, the argument...
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Monty Wolfe
- Jan 28, 2018
- 2 min
City Poor Vs. Rural Poor
I see a sadness in city poor people that I never saw in rural poor people. There’s a desperation, a lack of community, and a loneliness -...
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Monty Wolfe
- Jan 27, 2018
- 4 min
Enjoy the Silence
I’m on the Max heading to work, and my music has stopped. I was listening to a rousing bombastic final number from a Broadway show, but...
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Monty Wolfe
- Jan 22, 2018
- 5 min
I was Rash & Impulsive - and Gay
It was an uncommonly chilly night and I was shivering. I was never one for good decision making, and walking out of the house in only a...
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Monty Wolfe
- Jan 21, 2018
- 5 min
Routinely Rebellious
On principle, I’m repulsed by routine, but I also cling to it like a big blue blanket. I find that I expend most of my energy during...
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Monty Wolfe
- Jan 19, 2018
- 3 min
Feeling Queer
There have been a lot of great gays films - some were part of the New Queer Cinema movement, independent and profound like Go Fish or The...
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Monty Wolfe
- Jan 18, 2018
- 4 min
Bare Minimum
There was a time when I had no interest in being challenged. Whether from laziness or insecurity or a general malaise, the bare minimum...
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Monty Wolfe
- Jan 17, 2018
- 5 min
Who is Your Star?
Every now and again, while watching a movie, I’m distracted a bit by a side character dancing over in the periphery of the story. For...
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Monty Wolfe
- Nov 26, 2017
- 10 min
Film vs Virtual Reality: The Future of Emotional Manipulation
“Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.” — Vladimir Lenin What is the future of film, and does film necessarily need...
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Monty Wolfe
- Jan 20, 2017
- 2 min
GaGa For LaLa
Last night, I went GaGa for LaLaLand. I really didn't know much about it - but I had surmised that it took place in "Hollywood" - and I...
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Monty Wolfe
- Jan 15, 2017
- 2 min
Silence is Golden
Kevin and I finally braved the Snowpocalypse last night to go see a movie... Because I have an obsession with seeing pre-streaming films...
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Monty Wolfe
- Jan 8, 2017
- 3 min
Terd on a Stick
Yesterday, during my daily walk with Starbuck, we had stopped for a moment so she could sniff something along the path up to Terwilliger,...
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Monty Wolfe
- Dec 28, 2016
- 3 min
Goodbye to a Princess
This was originally written the day Carrie Fisher passed away... I was incredibly distraught and writing and painting helped... The...
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