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Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
25.7.22

Journal Entry #2502022: I Woke Up This Morning on a Hot, Summer Day in Queens and I Fiddled

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In this post, I dabble in a bit of online journaling. Take a peek at the day in the life of a bloke in New York City on a hot Summer day. Th...
13.7.18

Review of Frederick Wiseman's "High School" (1969) and Jean-François Caissy's La Marche à Suivre (2014)

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I am a teacher, so I am familiar with the strained relationship students sometimes have with authority. And most teachers - especially the b...
28.3.18

Lorelei from Superman III (1983) Reads Kant's Critque of Pure Reason

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Superman III (1983) You can read the above clip from Superman III as a dumb blonde joke writ large or as an insightful riff on phi...
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27.5.14

Movie Review: A Taste of Honey (1961)

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Jo (Rita Tushingham) in A Taste of Honey (1961) I've always been a sucker for kitchen sink drama. Maybe I was first smitten by Stre...
2.1.14

Greig's Best Movies of 2013

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To add to the glut of "best of" 2013 lists compiled this time of year, here's my authoritative round-up (not!) of the best mov...
10.10.13

On Drinking Prosecco And Watching Malcolm (And What Came Of It)

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I drank a bottle of Prosecco in the late afternoon. The light had just begun to disintegrate. On my computer lay a MPEG of Malcolm X , a mov...
7.8.13

Friedrich Nietzsche on the Abyss

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"Beyond Good and Evil", Aphorism 146 (1886). Decided to rewatch Abyss , the 1989 sci-fi water drama based on a Michael Crich...
13.7.13

Video Repost: "Blah Blah Blah" Supercut by Alex Brown

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Creator: Alex Brown "Blah Blah Blah" Supercut A supercut of movie Blahs. (...and 1 from TV) Hollywood scriptwriting at it...
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...
28.8.11

Quote from Auntie Mame: "Life's a Banquet"

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Rosalind Russel as Auntie Mame (1958) Life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death. ~Auntie Mame  What is so ...
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18.7.11

When Seeing the Devil is Not a Matter of Good Versus Evil

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I Saw the Devil (2010) Directed by  Jee-woon Kim Starring Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi and  Gook-hwan Jeon     It was an  incongruous p...
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...
16.3.11

Movie Review: "Desert of Forbidden Art" (2010)

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At Cinema Village  in Manhattan ,  Desert of Forbidden Art (2010)  is screening:        The documentary, filmed on location in Karapalpak...
20.2.11

Notes on an Idea: Cavell On The Star

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For the American philosopher Stanley Cavell ( The World Viewed, Pursuits of Happiness, Contesting Tears ) actors on the silver screen ar...
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...
22.1.11

The 4 Train On Sunday

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He told me this morning the four train is beast. Not beast as in animal. But beast as in best. I had taken it on Sunday after a visit to my ...
8.10.10

Movie Review: The Social Network

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It should be no surprise that a film like the Social Network would eventually be  made. Again. It is a story, as you will notice, if you ...
22.9.10

Never Let Me Go

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I was incredibly curious to see the adaptation of Ishiguro's exquisitely crafted novel Never Let Me Go ever since I had learned of Mat...