On May 15, 2020, the T-Boy Society of Film & Music met via Zoom for the final vote in members' favorite Architectural Wonders. This easily turned out to be our most popular poll. There were virtually no repeats in members’ top selections, with no clear winners.
On the morning of April 22, 2020, the T-Boy Society of Film & Music met via Zoom for the final vote in the Top Five North-American-English language novels where there is a focus or side focus on travel. Could we have been more specific?
On the morning of April 3, 2020, the T-Boy Society of Film & Music met for the final vote in the top 20 Songs of the Road of all-time. Due to the coronavirus mandated quarantine, the 15-member group transmitted their lists via zoom. The theme of Songs of the Road turned out to be both popular and all-inclusive for members. For some it meant fantasizing about taking the same Road Trip in the song or a remembrance of one of their own.
The countdown to the T-Boy Society of film and Music's Top Twenty Songs of the Road continues with nos. 11-20.
Any list of Songs of the Road would be amidst by not having legendary Mississippi Delta bluesman Robert Johnson represented in the list. Johnson plied his craft on street corners and in juke joints, ever rambling and ever lonely – and writing songs that romanticized his plight on the road.
On the morning of February 28, 2020, the T-Boy Society of Film & Music met in Studio City, CA for the final vote on our top 20 Road Movies of all-time. It was one of those beautiful Southern California mornings where the sun was out, the air was fresh with just a hint of dampness on the world-famous Los Angeles River ‘s concrete riverbed.
Couples-on-the-run films are now a sub-genre in Road Movies. They range from the film noirs of Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy to Jean-Luc Godard’s existentialism in Pierrot le Fou and the anarchic Weekend, where a traffic jam represents the approaching cataclysm that will destroy civilization. Rather timely today.
T-Boy Society of Film & Music member’s lists of their top road movies.
T-Boy Society of Film & Music's collection of the funniest, most heartfelt and damnedest moments in last year’s movies.
Max von Sydow the Oscar-nominated actor best known for playing chess with Death in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal has passed away. He was 90 years old.
