My Summer Of Love

• My Summer of Love

Strobe light beam, creates dreams Walls move, minds do too

• Press Telegram
• July 23, 2007

• 'My Summer of Love' Joins the Penguin Lovefest at the Tropic

The Best of the Manhattan short film festival returns to the Tropic Cinema this week with another collection of 12 great shorts. There are no-budget films and one made with a $1,000,000 budget. From the U.K. comes "Magic Circle," about an inept magician who makes a girl disappear into a nowhere land. From Spain comes "Heading Home," about a man who picks up a mysterious female hitchhiker. There is the "Little Terrorist" from India and "Perils of Nude Modeling" from the U.S. Further info and links are at TropicCinema.com

• Solares Hill
• August 05, 2009

• My Summer of Love

. Absolutely nothing happens In Pawel Pawlikowski's morose drama that you don't anticipate.

• Pittsburgh City Paper
• August 05, 2009

• My Summer of Love; Film by the Book

Why would Tam, who reads Nietzsche, befriend this Eliza-cum-Carrie of the countryside? (Nathalie Press even slightly resembles Sissy Spacek.) Mona doesn't ask or doesn't think about it. For a while the story loses track of Tam's sophistication, just as Mona does, and when her cruel sense of prep-school entitlement returns, so does our common sense about her. Mona's beloved brother, a former hoodlum, is a born-again Christian and who's turned his once-convivial pub into a church. Is his transformation authentic? That's Mona's question -- and the cause of her anguished isolation from her only living family member. But as the story unfolds in illusory patches, we don't get a very thorough perspective on anything.

• Pittsburgh City Paper
• August 05, 2009

• My Summer; of Love'; at Oriental

My Summer of Love," by Polish-born British TV and documentary director Pawel Pawilkowski, opens today at the Oriental Theatre, 2230 N. Farwell Ave. The story is a coming-of-age summer romance between two young women of different classes who are total opposites. The film, which was not available for preview, is based on the book by Helen Cross.

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• June 29, 2005

• My Turn: Reflections On the '2009 Summer of Love'

Before the 2009 summer of love comes into full swing, I thought it might be appropriate to reflect on what it is that we are commemorating. Forty years ago the summer of love was a nonviolent protest against the Vietnam War, a statement against sheepish conformity to social norms, and a celebration involving sex, drugs, and roll 'n' roll. Forty years later we are still at war, and only recently have gotten rid of a president who's administration was based on conflict. In terms of conformity to social norms -- I would like to save that topic for last.

• Taos News, The
• May 31, 2009

• My Turn: What Is the Summer of Love?

I lived in a commune in the late '60s and early '70s that would swell up to 60 at times. It was a special time all over the country that helped to bring down racial walls. We had red, white, brown, yellow, black, rich, poor, vets, draft dodgers, young and old all under one roof or tents or just under the stars on the ground. We worked hard, mixing adobe, gathering vegetables, baking break, making art and we sure did party.

• Taos News, The
• July 12, 2009

• Love talk: the director and star of My Summer of Love talk about keeping it real and getting it right.

"Mona and Tamsin do fall in love, and love is a big word," declares 23-year-old Nathalie Press, who affects a thick regional accent to play love-struc...

• The Advocate. The National Gay & Lesbian Newsmagazine
• Nbr. 2005, January 2005

• Let's Make a Deal ; Natalie Portman Gets Her Turn in Romantic Comedy That Explores 'Friends-with-Benefits' Relationships

NEW YORK -- Ah, these kids today. Falling into bed together first chance they get. Not waiting to get to know each other first. Why, in our day ... Um, yeah, about our day. "We were the generation that brought the concept of free love!" says director Ivan Reitman, 64, whose romantic comedy "No Strings Attached," starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher, follows a couple trying to have friends-with- benefits sex without getting all boyfriend-girlfriend about it. So even though your grandpa and my grandma may have been pursuing that idea in the Summer of Love -- and, judging from '40s film noir and old magazine articles about Roaring '20s flappers and such, so were our great-grandparents -- each generation seems to discover on its own that sometimes a man and woman just see each other ...

• Buffalo News
• January 20, 2011

• Into the Garden: ; Tips for Cutting Flowers for Indoors Help Make Them Last

Cutting flowers from the garden is one of the most fulfilling tasks of spring and summer. I just love to walk around with my sharp shears, snipping blossoms to fill vases in the house. I've passed along tips for the best cut flowers, but every year I get questions, so I'll pass along some hints to make your bouquets last.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• June 13, 2011