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Monty Wolfe
Dec 26, 201912 min read
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, 20196 min read
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, 201912 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 201812 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20185 min read
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, 20185 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20185 min read
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, 201710 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20163 min read
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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