#Schachter

[pierppasolini]

Buddies (1985) // dir. Arthur Bressan, Jr.

[entheognosis]

Anyone who has had a truly “spiritual” moment, a moment of breaking through our day-to-day reality and touching the divine, knows how difficult it is to communicate that experience to others— or even to recapture it later for ourselves.

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

[the-spooky-mind-of-spiderwish]

[cormancatacombs]

R.I.P.

[maertyrer]

R. N. Schachter St. Sebastian, Patron St. of Athletes

Painted tin, 1994

[creativespark]

Kenny Schachter

[gregdotorg]

Paul Thek's Birthday Cake of Flesh, c 1964

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my Halloween 🎃 movie marathon...Halloween: 25 Years Of Terror (2006) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #horror #documentary #Halloween #halloween25yearsofterror #johncarpenter #michaelmyers #theshape #lauriestrode #jamieleecurtis #debrahill #MoustaphaAkkad #robzombie #pjsoles #DeanCundey #nickcastle #brianandrews #AnaAlicia #tomatkins #donaldpleasence #ripdonaldpleasance #NANCYKYES #NancyLoomis #clivebarker #ripdebrahill #johncarlbuechler #RickRosenthal #biancakajlich #elliecornell #danielleharris #pamelasusanshoop #dwighthlittle #dominiqueotheningirard #thomasiannicholas #TomMorga #irwinyablans #donshanks #CharlesCyphers #ripcharlescyphers #bradschacter #JodiLynOKeefe #sashajenson #KathleenKinmont #DickWarlock #alanhowarth #mariannehagan #dvd #2000s

[iloveleggy]

[pierppasolini]

Buddies (1985) // dir. Arthur Bressan, Jr.

[byneddiedingo]

Geoff Edholm and David Schachter in Buddies (Arthur J. Bressan Jr., 1985)

Cast: Geoff Edholm, David Schachter, Billy Lux, David Rose, Libby Saines, Damon Hairston, Tracy Vivat, Susan Schneider, Joyce Korn. Screenplay: Arthur J. Bressan Jr. Cinematography: Carl Teitelbaum. Film editing: Arthur J. Bressan Jr. Music: Jeffrey Olmstead. 

Sure, the performances in Arthur J. Bressan Jr.'s Buddies could be more nuanced, and the lack of a generous budget shows, but this first ever feature film about AIDS holds up splendidly after almost 40 years. It's far more moving and effective than glossier treatments of the subject like Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme, 1993), if only because it was made when the urgency of the syndrome was at its height. Both writer-director-producer-editor Bressan and Geoff Edholm, who plays the bedridden Robert, died of complications from AIDS a few years after the film was made. Bressan made a wise choice in treating the film as a two-hander. Although other actors than Edholm and David Schachter, who plays Robert's "buddy," David, are credited, they're mostly voiceovers -- the few who appear on screen are carefully kept out out of the center of the frame. The effect is to internalize and intensify the drama. In fact, the scenes that move out of the hospital room, even the flashbacks to the healthy Robert and the concluding scene in which David fulfills Robert's dying wish, felt intrusive, the way scenes from a play that has been turned into a movie often feel. But if Buddies had been a play and not a film we might have lost this record of a sad and terrible moment in time.   

[minisinmedia]

Felice Schachter as Nancy Olson wearing a baggy button-up sailing sky blue shirt on The Facts of Life

[swampflix]

Bonus Features: Torch Song Trilogy (1988)

Our current Movie of the Month, 1988’s Torch Song Trilogy, is Harvey Fierstein’s big-screen adaptation of his own stage play about a drag queen’s life, loves, and heartbreaks in 1970s New York.  The film’s greatest accomplishments lie less in its queer political advocacy than they lie in its dramatic approximation of a full, authentic life for Fierstein’s protagonist – something gay men were…

[danbusler]

Daniela Schachter Celebrates Wayne Shorter

The music of Wayne Shorter filled the place!

The Daniela Schachter Nonet “A Concert Celebrating the Music of Wayne Shorter” at The Extended Play Sessions – Fallout Shelter in Norwood, MA. on April 6, 2024.The group includes Daniela Schachter, Billy Buss, Rick Dimuzio, Shannon LeClaire, Angel Subero, Lauren Sevian, Julian Kasper, Gen Yashimura, and Keala Yashimura.Daniela’s free-form jazz arrangements and style of seamlessly blending her…

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Spiritual seekers need one another as mirrors. A member of the Hopi nation once asked me about our holy days. I was telling him about Passover, our celebration of freedom, and Sukkot, our Feast of Tabernacles, and how they fit in with the cycles of the year. "I think I get it," he said finally. "You people don't want to be in slavery. And you want to pass this on to your children. But when you tell your kids on Passover, 'We have to go away from here; we can't stay here because it will cost us our freedom,' your kids will say, 'Yeah, but what are we going to eat?' So you teach them how to bake bread on stones, how to roast a lamb if you are hungry, how to find dandelion greens, and so on. When the kids ask, 'But where will we stay?' you show them how to build a lean-to, so they will have somewhere to live." An Indian perspective on the mitzvot to eat the Passover lamb with matzot and bitter herbs and to build a sukkah on Sukkot gave me a completely different insight into my own traditions.

-Jewish with Feeling, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. 2005, p. 198-199

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

We did ah say we did a variant of the intern thing. We hiuhed people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they wuh good, ah say if they wuh good, we offuhed them a job, a job that is.

Foghorn Leghorn