February 2012
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“It may be hard to recall, now that Streep has become our thespian in chief, that...”
– Charles McNulty, “My Meryl Streep problem”
Meryl Streep pretty much defines everything I find uninteresting about how the mainstream thinks about acting today, and this quote, I think, captures why. The whole idea of “revealing” and then “deflecting” emotion...
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Heat
drakemotel replied to your post: Top 10 Films of the 1990s
I would like to hear your thoughts on Heat.
Oh boy, it’s actually kind of hard to describe my particular choice of Heat for that list. Most of the films on that list were chosen out of instinct. I first compiled a shortlist of films and then narrowed it down so that the ones I ended up picking were the ones I couldn’t bear...
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Top 10 Films of the 1990s
I participated in the Muriels poll this year, and one of the sections of the ballot was “Best Film of the 1990s.” I was particularly happy with my choices:
The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer)
Heat (Michael Mann)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
Autumn Tale (Eric...
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“The three cinematic categories are… ranked by degree of sublimation. On the...”
– Carol J. Clover, Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
Well, this is simply one of my favorite books, but this passage is one I keep returning to in my mind over and over again. It helps if you know the plot of Body Double, where an actor fails to get cast in a Shakespeare...
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“In Hour of the Wolf the artist Johan Borg (Max von Sydow) describes a childhood...”
– Robin Wood, Ingmar Bergman
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Five K-Pop Songs I Loved in January 2012
[Here are five K-pop songs from January 2012 that I loved. I might try to make this a monthly feature here on this blog, partly as a way to force myself to stay on top of the newest K-pop releases. Click on the song titles to download an mp3 of the song.]
Sunny Hill - “The Grasshopper Song”
When I first heard of mixed-gender K-pop group Sunny Hill, I thought that the name sounded...
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Carnage and A Separation: Two Contrasting Views of...
Carnage and A Separation: two films with so many similarities, yet at the same time so different. Both films pivot on disputes between two couples—both of which disputes have to do with harm done to one of the couple’s offspring (an actual child in Carnage and a fetus in A Separation)—and in both films, nearly every scene features people argumentatively butting heads with one...
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