November 2011
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“Here’s what PTSD is like, and why people kill themselves over it. Think of...”
– Jim Gourley, “Of lepers and caves”
Putting this quote up because I just saw Martha Marcy May Marlene, which depicts a woman suffering from PTSD. This condition is something I’m very interested in, so I approached the film from that perspective, and I was pleasantly surprised to...
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“I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is...”
– Teju Cole on the “#firstworldproblems” meme, in a series of tweets compiled by Alexis Madrigal
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A Twitter Conversation on Terence Davies' The Deep...
By request, here is a transcript from last Friday of a Twitter conversation between myself, Phil Coldiron, and later Dan Sallitt (with the scene-stealing insights) on Terence Davies’ newest film The Deep Blue Sea.
@loosejoints: The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies): did anyone else find this critique of convention a little too compact and coy?
@loosejoints: Some moments of...
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Depression, Melancholia, and Me: Lars von Trier's...
I don’t expect every critic to tell his life story (as I am selectively doing here), but I think it is only honest to make clear to readers: “Here I am. I am writing this. I am not infallible. I am just a human being like yourself. What I have to say and the way in which I say it was determined by my own background, my own experience, my own understanding (or lack thereof). I...
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“The nation is still recovering from a crushing recession that sent unemployment...”
– Tim Dickinson, “How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich” Rolling Stone (November 9, 2011)
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“Cukor used his actors, quite blatantly, as his surrogates. “If I were very...”
– Dan Callahan, “Great Directors: George Cukor” Senses of Cinema (October 2004)
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“Slapstick is a mode of thought in Godard, another way of exploring possibility;...”
– Richard Combs, “François Truffaut: Day Into Night” Film Comment (2011)
Also: “The way James Monaco interprets Truffaut’s pairings (in his contribution to Richard Roud’s Cinema: A Critical Dictionary) is in line with a view of Truffaut’s expansive humanism: ‘these...
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“Image also plays a critical role in separating the two countries’ pop...”
– Patrick St. Michel, “How Korean Pop Conquered Japan” The Atlantic (September 13, 2011)
Aside from that gratuitous, self-satisfied final sentence, this paragraph is quite interesting. I wish I knew more about both cultures to extrapolate anything from this with any certainty—and...
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