The Nights On Broadway

by Baz Anderson on January 13, 2010

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Music as a form is so fluid that it can seem to fit into any form or shape that we can imagine. Because the shapes that we imagine music to be in are the shapes of human expression and emotion there are as many difference types of music and musical expression as there are cultures and subcultures that create them. Whatever the history of the American musical, it has a certain undeniable power for people with taste for deeply emotional storytelling.

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Night Watch (Nochnoi dozor)

by Baz Anderson on January 7, 2010

Throughout the history of humanity there has been a love of tales about magic. All too often the wonder and surprise that magic can create is lost when it becomes mechanical, or a plot device. When a Russian film called Night Watch (Ночной дозор, Nochnoi dozor) appeared it became a huge hit in it’s native country. I’d heard of it some years ago, but regretfully did not see it until recently. Night Watch and it’s sequel Day Watch paint a wondrous, sometimes violent and even disturbing picture of a world where magic is all too real – where the little things we do in life can be powerful and awe inspiring, or have dire consequences.

It is an amazing blend of the light and dark side of the human fantasy of magic.

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The Girl Behind The Mask

by Baz Anderson on January 5, 2010

A 16 year old young woman went to work to help her struggling family. At first she worked in a hat shop where her singing to herself would distract people from her work. She loved to make hats and have herself photographed in them. It was as though she was in love with glamor and sought a bit for herself. Then one day she went to work at another shop; a tie shop. There she met an Olympic champion rower. He was a strong handsome man who would be her love for 7 years.

Later, before a documentary camera crew he would speak of her with great affection and declare that “I loved her more than any other woman.” She was a woman that would become well known. You probably know her name now, but I suspect that what you know of her is only the mask she wore. The mask that was created in her search for some bit of glamor or beauty in the world, and the mask that would eventually kill her – that amazing little girl named Maria.

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His Girl Friday

by Baz AndersonJanuary 1, 2010

photo credit: sarniebill1
Start the new year off right with one of the films I recommended you see.
It’s one Youtube for easy viewing (legally)!
I’ll include my capsule review here:
For the “I love old movies” set, His Girl Friday is a doozie. Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in one of the wittiest and most rapid-fire dialog [...]

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Understanding Anime: Bridging the Gap Between The Eyes and The Heart

by Baz AndersonDecember 31, 2009

photo credit: Mad*Demoiselle
“Japanese Anime, for example, is one of the great art forms of Japan.”
….Film Critic Roger Ebert
I wrote this article some time ago about what Anime and Manga are, but what I did not get across was how to move beyond a simple understanding of what Anime is technically. I did not quite [...]

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