Dive into the archives.
- A Bad Day.
So let’s go through the negatives:
1) I’m dealing with a huge acne breakout. Yes, I said it. An acne breakout. At age 22. I thought, given the medicated stuff I started using two years ago, that I was nearly entirely over my acne. Turns out I was wrong. Thanks, genetics!
2) I didn’t get the job. [...]
- Offside
Offside
There’s usually a moment in a Jafar Panahi film when Panahi’s meticulously deaestheticized camerawork, rigorously handheld in a manner befitting of his socially-minded neorealist mode of discourse (the Dardennes come to mind as contemporaries in this regard), lapses. It can be something simple - in The Circle it’s simply a shot positioned on a tripod [...]
- The Knack …and How To Get It
As I write this, a couple who shares the breezeway to my apartment is very loudly having sex. Suffice it to say, there’s a sort of undeniable resonance with Richard Lester’s The Knack… and How to Get It, a film I watched recently and about which I have extraordinarily ambiguous feelings. Playing as part of [...]
- Updates…
Well,
I haven’t really had much to update, so I haven’t. Which is to say:
I haven’t made much progress on my script. I’ve been watching lots of movies, but nothing particularly exciting. Work is fine - nothing to write home about, but I feel as though what I do is appreciated on some basic level.
So I’ll [...]
- Pictures of My Neighborhood
For some reason, I decided today (beautiful weather, recharged AA batteries, handy seven-year-old digital camera) would be a good day to take some pictures of my neighborhood. For those of you who read my blog because you apparently think I have informative things to say about movies (lol) this post probably isn’t going to be [...]
- Live Flesh…
Some titles hold hidden gold: combing through a hastily-compiled Top 20 at YMDb (the still-operational Your Movie Database site, which is extremely depressing), there are any number of titles on here that don’t quite live up to the films behind them: Metropolitan, Day of Wrath, Picnic at Hanging Rock. But what could live up to [...]
- Vengeance is Mine
Vengeance is Mine is Shohei Imamura’s darkly comic melodrama about the true-life rise and fall of Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata), a serial killer of the early 1960s. It was Imamura’s first feature narrative in a decade and would seem a bridge between the two strands that had united his work to that point - an [...]
- Why is there nothing rather than something?
I did not take place. (1929-2007)
- Cinema as Wet Blanket
Craig Brewer’s Black Snake Moan has, if not the most bold, then certainly the most happily controversy-courting logline of any recent film: a black bluesman (Samuel L. Jackson) tries to cure a white nymphomaniac (Christina Ricci) by chaining her to his radiator. The very thought evokes dozens of layers of racial and sexual problematics – [...]
- Rock Show! Yay!
See, I don’t spend all my free time watching movies. Occasionally I go watch live performances of rock and roll music.
Last night I went with some friends and some friends of friends to see The Thermals:The Thermals conjure this sort of insanely overwrought pop-punk with brutally on-point no blood for oil lyrics (literally) and a [...]
