HBO’s Carnivale
Carnivale has me captivated. How does HBO do it? I loved Project Greenlight and Six Feet Under (although it wasn’t as good this past season, it’s still light years ahead of many network shows). Of course Sex In The City and Sopranos are great. Carnivale is so moody and beautifully photographed, it has moved to the top of “must see” list. Like Project Greenlight, I’m watching it two or three times a week (on different HBO channels). There’s always something new to see. This week’s episode about the tent revival and Ben’s (played by Nick Stahl) faith healing should be alarming. Seems to be the serious version of one of my very favorite films, Leap of Faith, starring an uncharacteristically callous Steve Martin. It was Janus Cercone’s first film. Very well written.
Be sure to check out Liz Levy’s Persistence of Vision. As always, there is some wonderful stuff on there. Be sure to check out the link to AnimWatch.Com, a site that tracks independent animated film. I stumbled on it a few weeks back when I wrote about Kowalski’s Dream. It features a story on RustBoy.Com which is a site about an independent film featuring, who else, RustBoy. The site also explains in great detail how to make your own animated film. It’s simply excellent.
“Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
U.S. Poet
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)
Irish Playwright
