February 2012
6 posts
“I had the best education in the world. Private kindergarten where I got straight...”
– Devon Banks to Jack Donaghy, 30 ROCK. This kind of writing is why it’s my favorite sitcom on the air.
January 2012
7 posts
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure...”
– George Eliot (via misswallflower)
December 2011
7 posts
SHAME & the city
Excerpt from Sean Burns’ Philadelphia Weekly interview with SHAME director Steve McQueen.
PW: I lived in New York City for years, so I’m fascinated by your depiction of Manhattan as a shimmering, steel palace of isolation.
Steve McQueen: For me it’s very strange, as a European. A lot of New Yorkers live and work in the sky. What’s amazing is that you always have a perspective of...
Michael Sicinski on DRIVE
DRIVE (Winding Refn 11) [tentative 7]
Just succulent. A total movie-movie, completely committed to surfaces and simulacra, but w/o the irony that typically hobbles such enterprises. Instead it locates the tough-as-nails romanticism in LA sheen, 80s synth and fonts, neo-hardboiled patter, & vacant glowering charisma. Also, it’s a pure, plastic exploration of spatial possibilities....
November 2011
14 posts
Mike D'Angelo on SHIT YEAR
From his blog
/Shit Year/ (2010, Cam Archer): 77
Not sure a movie could get much more fragmentary and diffuse and still hold together. Obviously it helps to have an actor like Ellen Barkin at the center—her performance is all the more extraordinary when you consider that she has no conventional “arc” to play, just a series of disconnected moments ranging all over the map in tone and...
“Well, nowadays, in terms of popularity, what the people who are making the films...”
– Kenneth Lonergan, from 2001 interview with BOMB magazine.
Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
“A USEFUL LIFE is a story about the decline in public film exhibition. As
art...”
– Samuel B. Prime, Director of Melnitz Movies at UCLA
October 2011
4 posts
“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is...”
– Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
September 2011
4 posts
“The metaphor is perhaps one of man’s most fruitful potentialities. Its...”
–
Excerpt from The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel by the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, 1925
“If I see my films described as ‘quirky’ or, even worse,...”
– Terry Zwigoff
August 2011
4 posts
July 2011
11 posts
