Bloggy Archives
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The Birth Tinsel & Tine!
I’d like to thank all my friends and family who were with me during the labor pains of birthing a new name for my blog. I was given some good suggestions: “Film Bites”, “Restaurant and Reels”, “Dip My Toe”, “Cinema Gastronomique”, “Cineatsta”,”Hungry Eyes” and a few others. I actually only got two enthusiastic responses to Tinsel & Tine, so I was going to go with majority rules and set about buying the domain filmbites.net, but at the checkout, I changed my mind; it just didn’t seem to have any ME in it. And blogging is all about the blogger, it’s a very narcissistic endeavor; I think that’s why there are…
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Marco Tullio Giordana (Wild Blood)
My association with Philadelphia Cinema Alliance has once again brought me into contact with a world famous, critically-acclaimed writer/director- Marco Tullio Giordana. In Italy he is one of the most popular and well-regarded filmmakers of the last thirty years. His films such as, I cento passi (2000) Pasolini, un delitto italiano (1995) and most recently Sanguepazzo (Wild Blood) (2008) are so respected that many Universities in the US teach entire courses on Maestro Giordana’s work, both in Cinema Studies and Italian Studies. One of the characteristics of Giordana’s movies is the osmosis, the tight connection between the private history of the characters and History. His movies tell a personal story,…
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NY Film & Video Festival Wrap Up
I only saw two films I would recommend to Philadelphia Cinema Alliance for CineFest, but it was great just being in the atmosphere of the festival, building my courage to talk to more and more filmmakers and attendees and trying to do timely posts...
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ODE TO GUIDING LIGHT
by Le Anne Lindsay, Tinsel & Tine Editor and #1 GL Fan Now readers, if you’ve never watched this Soap Opera or any for that matter, than please forgive me for going off the track of Film and Food. But I felt I owed a place of honor on my blog to this television institution which showed its very last episode on September 18, 2009 after 72 years of being on the air. Sadly, Guiding Light was so much apart of my formative years, that I feel I have more memories of these characters, than I do of my own life. I started watching ever so faithfully, when I was…
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Philly Restaurant – Osteria
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor What a disappointment! I had been wanting to dine at Marc Vetri and Jeff Benjamin’s Osteria (640 North Broad Street) for over a year. (The year I’ve been in school and on unemployment) Finally, I was given a gift certificate to this much talked about and written about Trattoria. Still, I waited weeks for the right day and when I was in the proper mood. Now perhaps I shouldn’t have gone alone. I’ve always said, food loses 5-10% of it’s magic the moment you utter these two dismal little words to the hostess – “just one”. Waiters do a perfunctory job, knowing that 20% of…
