George Carlin R.I.P.

He was the man with critical opinions that made you laugh, he was a true iconoclast. Come into Scarecrow and rent something from the Special Section we set up in commemoration of his death.

Carlin on America
“We were founded on a very basic double standard. This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be …

Clive Barker wants to save Midnight Meat Train!

I talked to Clive last night and he hopes with enough fan response this film will get a full theatrical release, not just because he feels its a great adaption of one of his stories but because of all the effort that Ryuhei Kitamura (ALIVE, VERSUS) and his crew have put into this.
Check out the …

Children & War

Come check out the new Special Section with a Spotlight on Children & War.
My intention for this section is not to pull at our heartstrings about the unfairness of war and the collateral damage of slaughtered innocent children during war. More my intention is to use the art of film, the language of visual communication …

The Wire’s War on the Drug War

For you Wire fans, from Time magazine:
“We write a television show. Measured against more thoughtful and
meaningful occupations, this is not the best seat from which to argue
public policy or social justice. Still, those viewers who followed The
Wire — our HBO drama that tried to portray all sides of inner-city
collapse, including the drug war, with as …

Werner Herzog, the Amazon jungle and me-

“To me, adventure is a concept that applies only to those men and women of earlier historical times, like the mediaeval knights who traveled into the unknown. The concept has degenerated constantly since then… I absolutely loathe adventurers, and I particularly hate this old pseudo-adventurism where the mountain climb becomes about confronting the extremes of …

The Shock Doctrine

This is a short film by Alfonso Cuarón (aka Children of Men) for Naomi Klein’s newest book exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades.
An official selection of the Toronto Film Festival & the Venice Film Festival
A Film by Alfonso Cuarón and …

David Lynch and 9/11

When David Lynch came to Seattle to present his newest film Inland Empire I had the privilege of attending a dinner with the famous director and managed a few minutes alone with the man over a smoke. He was everything I expected, not near the eccentric that one may think he would be, he had …