January 2012
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WatchA fisherman experiences a moment of connection with a female humpback whale in the waters off of San Francisco. Is this an example of inter-species communication or a mysterious fluke? This true story is retold in paint on a 16 foot high wall with the help of the passing public in Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park. Directed and Animated by Tess Martin
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“I’m going to begin by telling you about Miss Frost.”
– There’s a book excerpt from John Irving’s forthcoming novel In One Person over at the Simon & Schuster homepage.
(This on the same day a new Springsteen single comes out and I give my last lecture for this academic year. Now my happy new year may begin, thank you very much.)
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Charlie Brooker: How to realise David Cameron's... →
British film-makers! Put down those clapperboards and pay attention because David Cameron, who happens to be a huge fan of your work – assuming you’re making The King’s Speech II – wants you to focus on films likely to be a “commercial success”. Which presumably is the last thing you want.
Cynics say Cameron knows squit about British films. When that photo of SamCam and...
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The birth of film criticism – 100 years ago | Film... →
The early film critics, wrote Alistair Cooke in 1937, were presented with a new art form, unencumbered by tradition, and free “to define the movies with no more misgivings than Aristotle defined tragedy”. Or at least they would have been, but the press lost interest once the novelty wore off, and so “through a trick of snobbery the simple Aristotelian lost his chance”....
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My Thoughts On...Steamboat Bill Jr.
neitherfamenorfortune:
Like Keaton I feel out of step sometimes with the world around me. Not quite fitting in to the way the world is. Never more so than when watching a silent film, live scored, introduced by Jim Broadbent and being overcome with joy and escapism that I rarely get from modern cinema. Maybe I have to reclaim my mode of viewing, create opportunities and environments for sheer...
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“O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear! your true-love’s...”
– Feste, Twelfth Night, Act II, scene iii (lyrics set to music by Thomas Morley in 1602)
It’s twelfth night, the end of the Christmas festivities, the day of Epiphany. We’ve just got back home from our travels to find two surprises: a few Christmas cards which had gone astray in the post...
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“Ieri una mia amica è andata al cinema a Londra a vedere The Artist.
Arrivata...”
– Byronic, in un commento al mio post su ‘The Artist’, il film del cuore 2011 (via cidindon)
The Artist rende tutti più buoni.
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“Wir alle sind Seiltänzer! Bei ihm ist’s wie in der Kunst, so auch bei...”
– Max Beckmann, painter 1949
“We are all tightrope artists. For them it is the same as in art, and so it is with all humanity: ‘the desire to achieve balance, and to keep it.’”
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FOR SHAME 2011; or, The Worst Films of 2011,... →
As ever, some fine writing by the Reverse Shot team; and, by the way, I totally agree on Shame and Kevin.
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"Fragments for the End of the Year," by Jennifer...
ecantwell:
On average, odd years have been the best for me. I’m at a point where everyone I meet looks like a version of someone I already know. Without fail, fall makes me nostalgic for things I’ve never experienced. The sky is molting. I don’t know if this is global warming or if the atmosphere is reconfiguring itself to accommodate all the new bright suffering. I am struck by an overwhelming...
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December 2011
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Have yourselves a merry little Christmas, my... →
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