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Celebrating Trane
More than a year ago, on this blog, I added a post about John Coltrane. It was a July entry, remembering the giant’s death in that month in 1967. Today I’m remembering Trane’s birth on September 23, 1926. Here’s the same post from last summer. Whether in life or in death, Coltrane looms large for [...]
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Tagged 1926, 1967, 23, be bop, frontiers, John Coltrane, July, My Favorite Things, quartet, saxophone, September
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23 Years of Slacker
This spring we’re celebrating the 23rd birthday of Richard Linklater’s counterculture classic, Slacker. Capturing the way-out fringe of his Austin, Texas neighborhood, Linklater put himself on the map with this rolling conversation of a film that’s as subtly sophisticated as it is endearingly odd, smartly self-conscious and deeply human. Here’s some nice words on the [...]
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Tagged 23, Austin, Austinites, Eric Rohmer, Linklater, Nouvelle Vague, Roger Ebert, Slacker, Texas, Vincent Canby
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