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Showing posts with label films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label films. Show all posts
14.11.11

Movie Review: Love Story

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A capsule review on fragility and loss in Love Story (1970) with a special nod to love in libraries. Ryan O'Neil and Allie McGraw in...
17.3.11

Book Review - Pursuits of Happiness: A Short Response

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Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness  writes about remarriage comedies in movies made after the advent of talkies (1934-1949). C...
19.2.11

The Awful Truth: Cary Grant and Irene Dunne

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In this post, I write about Carey Grant and Irene Dunne's performance in the movie The Awful Truth. With "the holiday in his eye...
15.1.11

Movie Review: The Time That Remains

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The Time That Remains is Elia Suleiman's autobiographical account of his Palestinian family in Nazareth who lived under the post-1948 s...
29.7.10

Luis Buñuel on Film and the Subconscious

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To commemorate Luis Buñuel 's death in 1983, here is an evocative piece he wrote about film and the subconscious: In the hands of a fr...
22.7.10

Movie Jot: A Vincent Gallo Film You Most Likely Won't Finish

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The Brown Bunny  (2003)  A paean to the road trip, bad fellatio, and gross men is enough to make you stop watching this brilliant, albei...
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27.5.10

Movie Review: World's Greatest Dad

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Read a movie review by Greig Roselli about Bobcat Goldwaithe's dark comedy World's Greatest Dad (2009) . Two scenes are striking...
19.3.10

Libraries and Librarians in Film

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EW did a thing on 18 movies with libraries , but I thought I'd add to the mix with just 3: Citizen Kane The Library Matron C...
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6.3.10

Movie Review: Adaptation of a Children's Classic Now on DVD

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Whoop. Woot. Rawrr. Claw. Battle. Rumpus. Fantastical beasts. An omnipotent little boy. A busy mother. A boat. Feed me. Let the wild rumpus...

I Have No Idea What To Call This Rant

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“I ate it, knowing the rabbit had sacrificed itself for me.  It had made me a gift of meat.” Maxine Hong Kingston. In this post I rant ...

Movie Review: Club Silencio Scene "Llorando" Muholland Drive

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Mulholland Drive by David Lynch is one reason why I increasingly favor film as a superior art form. "Llorando"   why you mu...
4.3.10

Anatomy of a Scene: Au Revoir Les Enfants (Scene 20)

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Movie Still - Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) In Louis Malle's haunting autobiographical film, Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987), figures ...
28.2.10

Excerpt from My Book of Essays Inspired by New Orleans and New York: "Turning Over a New Leafs [sic]"

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Read the rest of the book here . Setting a crate of laundry on top of the washing machine, I told my landlord, who happened to be standi...
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23.12.09

Waiting for a Movie

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Plush seat. cup holder. Lights turned on. When will it be dark? Restlessness grows. Mind meanders. Practice prayer. Impatient.
9.11.09

Gilgamesh and the Search for Meaning in a, "I love you, man!" kind of way

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My colleague and friend, Bonnie, asked me a rhetorical question once when I worked at the public library, “Who, Greig, would want on their ...
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