October 2011
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The Blair Witch Project (1999) →
Erica U. has a terrific short essay about The Blair Witch Project on brightwalldarkroom, a film I still cannot bring myself to watch.
Here are my favourite extracts, but you should read the whole thing (or drum up the courage, cuddle up tight with your loved one, and press play):
After its unaffected style, the film is most masterful in its understanding that if we are left without adequate...
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“Who is truly the more adult: the protesters or an establishment that regards...”
– Andrew Rawnsley | The Observer
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“For Schwartz this formed the paradox at the heart of baseball, or football, or...”
– Earlier this morning I finished reading Chard Harbach’s first novel, The Art of Fielding. What a great book. I enjoyed its unpretentious, straightforward, classic structure: finally a novel, an old-fashioned novel! I loved its characters as if they were real people - my friends, my team-mates,...
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This Halloween I’m going as Donnie Darko.
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Make Hockey Happen (by Brian Ceci)
Every year, Brian Ceci and his friends leave Vancouver and drive up to Green Lake, BC. Their mission? To build a hockey ring from scratch, using the frozen lake as their location. It takes them several trips to prep the ice but, as the video shows, it definitely seems worth it. Amazed by Brian’s doc and their crazy idea, I...
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Rain check
Etymology The expression may have originated in the era of open-air markets where the occurrence of significant rain usually required a vendor to pack up their goods and leave. The term may also be based on the issuing of tickets to claim property such as a coat or hat check. Before 1889, US baseball fans were issued a new ticket if rain was heavy enough to cause a game to be postponed. Abner...
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“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching...”
– Chad Harbach The Art of Fielding (via astrophysics)
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“Just because an opinion exists does not mean that the opinion is worthy of...”
– Wouldn’t It Be Cool if Shakespeare Wasn’t Shakespeare? - NYTimes.com (via markcoatney)
I agree with the first two lines completely, and as I tend to consider other people’s opinions in this light, I also put my own opinions out there on both sides of the table. Everyone is welcome to their own...
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Anonymous, or: ludicrousness, redefined.
I saw Anonymous today and HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
I could write a review when I stop rolling on the floor laughing, or you could read this one instead (via undertrees).
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Viggo Mortensen looked right into my eyes and we...
David Cronenberg was asked: “how has psychoanalysis influenced your films?”
His reply: “I don’t think psychoanalysis has influenced my films, I think my films have influenced psychoanalysis.”
It wasn’t even a joke, it was more of a quip, but hey, at that point I gazed into the abyss and the abyss gazed also into me.
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“It is a movie which is a skin-peelingly intimate character study and a...”
– Peter Bradshaw, We Need to Talk About Kevin | Film review | The Guardian
I saw We Need to Talk About Kevin today, and I can’t get it out of my head. While there’s much to be admired in the film from a film-crit point of view (fabulous editing and sound work, a terrific Tilda Swinton) I...
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“We all accept liberal democratic capitalism, even during this current...”
– Slavoj Žižek: Blofeld rides again | Culture | The Guardian
Sophie Fiennes and Slavoj Žižek reunite to shoot a sequel to The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema!
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