Elizabeth Colen — The Monarch Review
On Pacific Aggression – Elizabeth Colen
Monday, October 6, 2014 10:03 — 0 Comments
PACIFIC AGGRESSION is first and foremost a smart film, a well-researched film that engages articulately both metaphorically and literally with the history of place and history of cultural violence, the history of how people just going about their lives contribute to and move these aggressions forward. Filmmaker Shaun Scott shows our digital age of loneliness not as something new, but as something we have always been working (against ourselves) towards. And he shows all of this through the communicationally challenged, yet budding relationship between main characters Frank Ulysses Waters (played by Trevor Marston) and Meryl Applegate (played by Libby Matthews, […]
The Monarch Drinks With Riz Rollins
Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:57 — 1 Comment
The first thing you should know about Riz Rollins is that he’s a charming motherfucker. No less than a dozen people stopped and talked to us while we sat inside and then outside Pettirosso in Capitol Hill on a sunny, unseasonably warm September afternoon. Another dozen or so yelled his name or said hi while walking past. One guy stopped and said, “I can’t help touching you,†when a hug turned into some light petting. I was nervous to meet Riz, having known him on the radio since I moved to this area ten years ago and having experienced what […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
