Woody Allen & Bijou Backlight

Ted Salins’ article on the new Richmond film blog Bijou Backlight highlights five underrated Allen films and was linked to from the Woody Allen Pages. Congratulations Ted!

“My Gun Is Quick”

Currently I am reading Mickey Spillane’s 1950 pulp fiction novel “My Gun Is Quick.”
 

“The wind picked up throwing the rain around. The few pedestrians left on the sidewalks were huddled under marquees or bellowing for cabs that didn’t stop. Every time I stopped for a red light I could see the pale blur of the faces behind the glass store fronts, the water running down making them waver eerily. All with the same blank look of the trapped when nothing can be done to help.”

Private Investigator, Mike Hammer’s observations on a rainy night.

The Autumn Equinox

Forest Hill Park – 2005. Photo by © Tom Campagnoli – All rights reserved.

Fall begins today September 22, 2013 at 4:44pm EDT.  The Autumn Equinox is one of the two times of the year that the day and night are of equal length. From here on out the days will become shorter and the nights longer until the Winter Solstice on December 21st.

I believe this is going to one fine fall.

Bijou Backlight

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And The Wiremen

Stayed up late on a school night and saw And the Wiremen with Low Branches at Balliceaux earlier this week.

12 years ago today…

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A photo used by permission by syncretist of the twin towers memorial lights from 2011 on the 10 anniversary.

RVA Street Art Festival ~ Sept. 11-15

The photo above is from last year’s event by kozmicdogz.

The RVA Street Art Festival is back. Local and international artists are painting walls all around Richmond and centered at the old bus depot on W. Cary Street.

From the website:

The RVA Street Art Festival will return to Richmond September 11-15 and revitalize 5.5 acres of walls and buildings on the former GRTC depot on Cary St. with public art, murals sessions, sculpture, and mixed-media exhibits as well as stories and ideas about the history and future of transportation in Richmond, Virginia.

Photos from last year’s mural festival in April 2012 here.

The Richmond Folk Festival ~ only a month away!

The Richmond Folk Festival which runs from October 11-13 is in its’ 6th year (9 if you count the first 3 National Folk Festivals).

Here is the link to the list of performers.

Deadline Approaching

The Deadline for the 2013 JAMES RIVER SHORTS FESTIVAL is September 15, 2013 (postmarked).

Cash prizes up to $2,000.

The James River Shorts festival will take place November 15, 2013 at 6:30pm. For more information click here.

WHAT IS JAMES RIVER SHORTS?

James River Shorts is a mini-festival devoted to the short. The centerpiece is a juried competition for short films (30 minutes or less) from around the globe that best embody what the James River Film Society and James River Film Festival are all about – the art of film and film as art. It’s also the James River Film Festival’s little sibling. Even a snapshot of the guests from past 20 years of the JRFF – David Gatten, Ross McElwee, Jodie Mack, Peggy Ahwesh, Jem Cohen, Bruce Bickford, Richard Kelly, Chuck Statler, Karen Aqua, Joanna Priestley, Ray Harryhausen, Pere Ubu, Martha Colburn, Mel Stuart, The Brothers Quay, Jonas Mekas, Les Blank, Tom Verlaine, Charles Burnett, Albert Maysles, John Columbus, Stan Brakhage, Scott MacDonald, and William Wegman – shows that we have a broad concept of the art of film and film as art. Therefore, we encourage all types of short films – fiction, nonfiction, animation, experimental and more. We define short, you define art.