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- New York. Also: Inspiration? Also: Miami Vice?
So I’m in New York.
I’ve spent my last two days like a character in a Taiwanese film, pacing around my apartment bored, looking at things in long take, waiting. When you don’t have a job and have been in a city too short a time to have a social life, you really get a good [...]
- In New York
More to follow…
- Whoa-ho-ho / It’s Magick!
“Come… let me enchant you!”
No, not an actual line of dialogue, but it might as well be. Between the conscious aping of those formal conventions we’ve come to associate culturally with silent cinema (irises, flicker), the textual focus on questions of religion in the modern age, and the tawdry, almost impossibly obvious love triangle at [...]
- Sven Nykvist (1922-2006)
“You can always learn something new. Sometimes it is about manipulating light. Other times it is about finding another angle into the human soul. That’s what keeps [...]
- Can We Talk About This?
Dear B,
Hey there. So, it’s good to see your solo career is still going well. As much as I love “Crazy in Love,” I think “Ring the Alarm” might be my favorite single from you yet. But that’s not why I’m writing. I’ve waited to see if anyone else was going to point this out, [...]
- PLEASE, AMERICA. DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN.
Okay, guys. I’ve really been thinking a lot about this trailer right here. It’s a marvelously-edited bit of canned slickery, with non-diegetic train noises (that don’t figure in the film itself at all, natch), an elegant focus on the ’sexy’ adultery plotline (rather than the thoroughly unsexy and ridiculously played pedophilia plotline), and lots of [...]
- Brendon Gets Real.
So I must admit I’ve been in dereliction of duty these past few months. As entertaining as this blog has been for me, and as much as I’ve known that there was little way I could be productive in Hanover this summer, I can’t help but feel as though I’m neglecting the real reason why [...]
- I’ve Also Been Watching Movies…
Brief thoughts on a few of them:
The Black Dahlia - If the film has some narrative failings (profound), it makes up for it with some startlingly effective scenes. The film’s not very interested in the actual case of Elizabeth Short so much as it is using that case, and some bizarrely uninteresting twists surrounding its [...]
- That’s Right, I’m Packing My Bags…
Heading to NYC! I’m in San Antonio right now. Tonight I’ve been doing laundry, packing boxes, and getting generally prepared for heading to New York, where I plan to carry out my five year plan (which is, for the new readers I seem to be getting every day, to make a feature length film within [...]
- ACL Festival with Chris
Argh. So my first post on this got deleted when the Internet decided to disconnect on me. So here’s hoping the second one is as good:
What a treat! My brother Chris took me to the ACL Music Festival in Austin, where we did some nice sibling bonding while listening to sweet tunes. And then I [...]
