I'm watching Godfather I on AMC -- too many commercials, too bad. I have seen this movie maybe 20 times. I love it every time. I see something new every time. Every shot is brilliant, so well thought out. Part of the fun of vacation is sitting around the house [...]
From time to time I like to give a review of a movie Mrs. Cohn Zohn and I see. Today we saw "Bernie," an interesting flick, very well acted, that somehow does not work. It does not work in an interesting way and you may want to see it -- [...]
It's late Friday night and for some reason I can't sleep. I covered the Giants home opener and then went out to dinner in San Francisco with Jeff Fletcher at a little Italian place I like called Il Borgo, and now I'm in bed on the internet while Mrs. Cohn [...]
Here is something that interests me and puzzles me. Recently, I linked a column about Ryan Braun on my blog. I had an expert explain why Ryan Braun really is guilty of taking something or other and deserved to get suspended for 50 games. I also wrote a blog on [...]
I took Mrs. Cohn Zohn and Grant to the flicks this afternoon. We went to see "Hugo" because the Academy Awards are tonight and I wanted to be knowledgeable on a few films nominated for best picture. I have seen "The Artist" and "Midnight in Paris" and love them but [...]
I just got back from the movies, saw "My Week With Marilyn," based on Marilyn Monroe filming a movie with Laurence Olivier and the problems they had professionally and personally. I liked the movie very much -- Michelle Williams as Marilyn was outstanding. But . . . As we left [...]
Thanks for playing, everyone. You've enriched everyone's day by mentioning all those wonderful movies. I want to keep playing, so here's the next question. What makes road trip movies so good? Bear with me on this, please. I mentioned in the first post that two parallel trips occur. There is [...]
I'm not in the mood to blog about sports this morning. Sorry. But I am in the mood to blog. Some background: Last night at the Zohn we watched, for about the fifth time, "Sideways," that wonderful movie with Paul Giamatti about wine tasting near Santa Barbara and about the [...]
Sorry for the tardiness of this post. Here is my Saturday column, about "Moneyball" the movie, a film I have not seen -- a film I may not see. I haven't decided yet. I am not critiquing the movie, obviously, but I am critiquing the idea of the movie -- [...]
I woke up this morning in the gray wet Oakland hills and naturally I thought about "Mr. Tambourine Man." It's my favorite Bob Dylan song. I'm not saying it's the best. There are so many great ones. But it's my favorite, speaks to me all the time. I know it's [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.