http://www.sherlockjr.com/dreamfactory Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:26:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My orientation at the museum didn't take very long because they didn't show me around the galleries, just the office annex with no art in it. I'm on the second floor, marketing and communications; above us are the money people. On top of them is another floor where a certain ... http://www.sherlockjr.com/dreamfactory/?p=43 A few weeks after I turned in my program notes for the film festival, the program coordinator called me: "The notes are fine, except I wanted to let you know, we need to add a sentence to the beginning of one of them." "What does it say?" "'I LOVE DOCUMENTARIES!!'" "Um, OK, but maybe ... http://www.sherlockjr.com/dreamfactory/?p=42 Everyone's talking about this new TV show. It's shot through an upstairs window, maybe in London, maybe not. There's a view of a street tree and a lamppost and a sidewalk where every once in a while someone walks by. In the pilot, we witnessed a blonde woman in a ... http://www.sherlockjr.com/dreamfactory/?p=41 "Hi, I'm Robert Osborne," says our host Robert Osborne, emerging from the warm mahogany recesses of his Craftsman-style living room. He approaches the camera, smiling enigmatically, then drifts into a niche behind the leather sofa. He reemerges into an Orientalist fantasy of floor cushions, hookahs, and maroon draperies. Still approaching ... http://www.sherlockjr.com/dreamfactory/?p=40 I'm talking on the phone in my apartment with the view of the Bay Bridge, saying I can't believe how Mr. Hitchcock has chosen me to star in the remake of Vertigo. I mean, not only am I not an actress, I don't look anything like Grace Kelly! I hobble ... http://www.sherlockjr.com/dreamfactory/?p=37 I was standing around in the rec room on the spacecraft vaguely watching Forbidden Planet on the monitor embedded in the carpeted wall. My colleague was writing a letter by the dim light emanating from the screen. A stranger in a space suit padded quietly into the room and shut ... http://www.sherlockjr.com/dreamfactory/?p=39 This film series is brought to you by FLOOM, which should be spelled with hearts instead of Os, judging by the T-shirt of the very large person of indeterminate sex serving as master of ceremonies: the T-shirt reads "My Name is FL[heart][heart]M and I [heart] Formalist Cinema!" FLOOM has a ... http://www.sherlockjr.com/dreamfactory/?p=38 Oh, the hippies, frolicking naked and hairy across the screen. They have utopian visions that they will fulfill through irrigation, flooding their back-to-nature fields with torrents of muddy water. I can't look, I'm revolted, but R says look, these are your people! They love plants and growing things! And even ... http://www.sherlockjr.com/dreamfactory/?p=36 And now a message from our sponsors: The troop transport ramp descends and uncountable masses of soldiers spill out and into the lens like clowns from a clown car, their footsteps creating surround-sound thunder. They keep coming while the logo fades in . . . LITTLE WORLD WAR III Game On They keep ... http://www.sherlockjr.com/dreamfactory/?p=35 Mr. Burns is getting some bootleg videotapes for Christmas! Homer has a secret stash in prison, and Mr. Smithers sneaks in, disguised in a trench coat and dark glasses. He hands Homer six hundred dollars in tidy little bundles and leaves with a spilling-over armful of tapes, at a run, ... http://www.sherlockjr.com/dreamfactory/?p=34