Growing up in Towson, MarylandPART 12Moving to the Country Life for my seventeen year-old self became nasty in the summer of ’68, when two good friends were shot, executed actually, by a gunman, while working the night shift in a South Towson Harley’s sub shop. The cretin walked in at closing, and told them to…
It’s the 55th Anniversary of The Beatles’ A HARD DAYS NIGHT
By Robert Maier One very hot night, August 19, 1964, to be exact, when I was just 13, the world changed. The Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night” opened at Baltimore’s 1,275-car Timonium Drive-in Theater. And I was there. It’s hard to understand now, before 10,000 TV channels on your phone, facebook, Twitter,and Instagram, etc. how…
Growing up in Towson, Maryland in the 1960s
I lived in Towson from 1955 to 1975 and was a teen there in the magnificent 1960s. Towson was home to several noted (or notorious), characters: Divine – aka Harris Glenn Milstead, respected ground-breaking cross-dressing actor/performer John Waters – Underground filmmaker, performer, author and cultural icon Madalyn Murray O’Hare – Notorious atheist activist whose Supreme…
List of Recommended Films on Netflix and Amazon Prime for Viewing at Home During the Flu Crisis
3/23/20 The Lighthouse Gay arty slow dark nonsense ** The Atlantics Confusing African modern ** Interstellar Sci Fi Deep**** David Crosby: Remember My Name Very good honest doc**** The Biggest Little Farm Excellent doc**** The Sisters Brothers Excellent atmospheric Western drama**** Echo in the Canyon Excellent 60s music doc ***** High Life Interesting Sci-Fi ***…
Quirky Documentaries Seminar Cabin Fever University Winter 2020
TITLE DIRECTOR LENGTH YEAR Screening Dates Point and Shoot Marshall Curry 93 min 2014 Thur. 1/16 Above Us Only Sky Michael Epstein 89 min 2018 Thur. 1/30 Fata Morgana and Lessons of Darkness Werner Herzog 75 min 50 mins 1971 1997 Thur. 2/13 What Happened Miss Simone? Liz Garbus 102 mins 2015 Thur. 3/5 This…
I Nearly Burned Down the Poe House
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Review of THE BALTIMORE KID by Tom DiVenti
Tom DiVenti was born and raised in an early 1960s working-class Baltimore City neighborhood. It was row houses, apartments and small ’30s-40s houses on dinky city-sized lots. Most people worked in Baltimore’s industrial world, and their children of the 1950s and 60s were expected to do so too. However, young DiVenti discovered a box of…
Dellinger Grist Mill Project
Filmmaker Robert Maier is captivated by the story of the Jack Dellinger and his family’s historic grist mill, and wants share the story with others. Robert has produced numerous feature films, television documentaries, and educational films. He was senior producer at Charlotte’s PBS TV station, for eight years, and was head of the Broadcasting Department…
More Recommended Netflix Titles
Netflix has some great non-mainstream cinema to offer, but theycan hard to find in the thousands of ever-shifting titles. Google “best films on Netflix”, and you’ll get dozens of returns. Like so much Internet junk, many just use algorithms of the most popular titles, counting stars, likes, etc.– not very helpful. Others are click bait…
The Wonder of a Silent Film Accompanied by a Large Pipe Organ
After my many decades in film, I finally got to see a silent film accompanied live by a large pipe organ. The pipe organ has always been my favorite instrument. Probably because it is so loud, has so many different sounds, and one note can be duplicated a dozens times in dozens of different voices. …