To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) Starring Gregory Peck, Mary Badham and Phillip Alford Written by Horton Foote (screenplay) and Harper Lee (novel) Directed by Robert Mulligan One of the great things about setting out to watch all 100 of the AFI's greatest American films of all time is it gives me an excellent chance to … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: To Kill A Mockingbird (#34)
Month: April 2013
The AFI Top 100 Films: It Happened One Night (#35)
It Happened One Night (1934) Starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert Written by Robert Riskin (screenplay) and Samuel Hopkins Adams (short story) Directed by Frank Capra One of the most interesting behind-the-scenes tidbits I've discovered about It Happened One Night is just how much its lead actors hated working on the film. Its distributor, Columbia … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: It Happened One Night (#35)
Friday Fiction: A Primer of Oak’s Home
I run a home-grown Pathfinder game about twice a month that I've been having quite a bit of fun with. Through 18 games, I've taken my players up to level 7 (about a third of the way through their progression) and get this -- they're still with me. I've had pretty bad luck before with running … Continue reading Friday Fiction: A Primer of Oak’s Home
The AFI Top 100 Films: Midnight Cowboy (#36)
Midnight Cowboy (1969) Starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman Written by Waldo Salt (screenplay) and James Leo Herlihy (novel) Directed by John Schlesinger I have to admit it took me a little while to puzzle this one out. At the end of the Midnight Cowboy you get the sense of closure that comes when a … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Midnight Cowboy (#36)
The State of the Rabbit – April 2013
I'm not very good at those April Fools' Day pranks that tend to make the rounds on the blogosphere today, so I encourage you to imagine that I did something appropriately awesome and/or crazy and you're amused or annoyed by it. I'm sure that whatever you could come up with would be better than what … Continue reading The State of the Rabbit – April 2013
From the Desk of Jakebe T. Rabbit 