Movies Til Dawn

Splendid news: AARP has selected "CIty Island" as Best Comedy of the Year for their "Top Ten Movies For Adults " awards. Apparently there's an actual ceremony attached to this honor, this February at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Thanks, AARP. And screw the Independent Spirit Awards. And we're on a number of year-end ten best lists. Click here for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. And here for the St. Louis Post Dispatch . And now for something completely different. I'm taking a vacation from this blog. Not retiring it. But not planning on posting anything in the immediate future. The reason is simple: I have a shitload of new writing projects to attend to in the new year and simply don't have the time to continue my increasingly infrequent posting. Even though it takes me no more than an hour per post and I seem to be posting at the shameful rate of once every two weeks, there's the "I have homework" factor. In other words, a lot of the time...

Lou Lumenick, film critic of the New York Post, has weighed in with his top ten best films of 2010 and you can click here to see "City Island's" appearance at number seven on the list. Thanks, NY Post--you've been so in our corner since last March when our movie opened. Award season, such as it is, is underway and we'll see if catch any luck or if we're a "just missed" kind of movie. But one way or another the movie has had an amazing life and the fact that its touched as many people--and critics, for that matter--as it has is reward enough. And anyway, what was Montaigne's brilliant quote about awards? "How modest is he who is honored by honors." Great writer Montainge. I wonder if there's a movie in his life. Starring Jackie Gleason, perhaps...   Subscribe in a reader

Congratulations to my friend and partner Andy Garcia for the first of his nominations for his work on "City Island". He's been nominated for best actor in a comedy by the International Press Academy , for their "Satellite Awards Show". The winners will be announced on December 19th. The fact that I've never heard of this particular awards show bothers me not a whit; I have heard of (and have been nominated for and attended) the Independent Spirit Awards and I was relieved to hear that they failed to recognize our movie; the food at the one I went to was lousy and it was held in a cold tent on the beach in Santa Monica. Here's an incredibly nice appearance Andy did on a local LA talk show earlier this week--the hosts couldn't be more complimentary about our film and Andy is quite suave given that it's 7 something AM in the morning. You may have to search the site a bit for it--don't know if this will take you directly there. And now, contin...