April 2012
20 posts
“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky (via theinsatiables)
I always go back and forth in my mind about the extent to which art should represent an ideal world, or a fantasy world, disregarding the connection between this world and the real world. That is to say, should art function usefully by its being connected to...
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A Radical Narrative Disguised as a K-Drama:...
What would you do if you fell in love with someone but couldn’t tell if they were a man or a woman? That’s not quite the premise of the K-drama “Coffee Prince,” but it is the question posed to its viewers. In the series, an androgynous woman named Eun-chan (played by the beautiful actress Yoon Eun-hye) is mistaken for a boy. Its other protagonist, and Eun-chan’s...
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March 2012
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“I’ve often thought I would do a porno-horror movie, and capitalize on two of the...”
– Billy Wilder
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THE WORST ESSAY ABOUT HIP HOP EVER WRITTEN →
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“Tonight belongs to the guys in Bigbang. Since frontman G-Dragon went into hiding...”
– David Bevan, “Seoul Trained: Inside Korea’s Pop Factory”
This is a really great article on K-pop, not only because it’s informative but because it manages to partly capture why people (myself included) go crazy for the music and idol culture. The article’s subtitle...
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“Ferrara is not interested in either clear-cur morality or the play of ambiguity...”
– Brad Stevens, Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision
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