http://www.summervillain.com/blurgh [the summervillain muses] Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:56:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en in no special order except for #1 awesomest ever wife/best friend kittens the extra time we had with Theo just being here terrific friends being able to move both sides of my face being able to hand wash a heavy bowl without wincing family stuff trending upwards having a job at all having a completely awesome job being part of a ... http://www.summervillain.com/blurgh/content/2011/11/partial-list/ If, like me, you somehow managed to miss the late-night-talk-show-host-wars, Rodman Flender's film will catch you up, but here's the gist, as I see it: O'Brien turns down what for many would be the gig of a lifetime, and walks away with a fat cash settlement, the massed goodwill of ... http://www.summervillain.com/blurgh/content/2011/05/iff-boston-2011-conan-obrien-cant-stop/ I knew nothing about Ferran Adrià's avant garde restaurant El Bulli before going into this screening, which I think was fine state to start with, but it's immediately apparent that much of the film is about the process by which Adrià and his team craft the menu for the next ... http://www.summervillain.com/blurgh/content/2011/05/iff-boston-2011-el-bulli-cooking-in-progress/ Writer/director/co-star Michael Tully's dark and funny dysfunctional family tale Septien is tricky to talk about without spoilers, because some of the fun of it is in how it sets up a number of expectations and only fulfills some of them. In the Q&A session after the screening, Tully, who is ... http://www.summervillain.com/blurgh/content/2011/05/iff-boston-2011-septien/ I didn't think the documentary shorts program we saw was quite as impressive overall as the narrative shorts program, but I enjoyed it a lot. The unifying theme here was character studies, most of which offer a surprise (which I will not spoil). Charles Fairbanks' "Irma" spends a good proportion of ... http://www.summervillain.com/blurgh/content/2011/05/iff-boston-2011-documentary-shorts-1/