cinematophilia category archives
“think positive”
Wednesday 1 October 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar
As the Republican’s mother used to say, with forced good cheer. Usually she recommended this tactic from a regally supine position on the sofa, comfortably surrounded with women’s magazines, newspapers, and bowls of vegetables to be cut up for dinner (enchiladas or tamales—holy crap she could cook), and with Oprah discoursing in the background. It [...]
the faceting machine
Friday 26 September 2008 | someone left a cookie
Modern science has subtilized its projections to an almost unrecognizable degree, but our ordinary life still swarms with them. You can find them spread out in the newspapers, in books, rumours, and ordinary social gossip. All gaps in our actual knowledge are still filled out with projections. We are still so sure we know what [...]
tonight at 12:01 a.m.
Thursday 17 July 2008 | 4 cookies in the jar
That’s when the first screenings of The Dark Knight will start. Time was I’d have been scrunched down in the back row doodling in my notebook with my Sharpie by 11:15. They were already saying Nicholson, Brando; now they’re saying Pacino, DeNiro. I regretting having to write negative reviews of Casanova and The Brothers Grimm, [...]
clarifying the great matter of ghee
Saturday 5 July 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the Most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any Motive of poetry But to achieve clarity. —George Oppen • In the mornings, before tar street-surfaces start to bubble, our modem light flickers green. Avec vitesse! Con brio! Post like the [...]
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je suis henri
Wednesday 25 June 2008 | I like a cookie
You’ve already seen this wistful little pièce du cinéma if you’re a faithless reader of Cute Overload (the B. and I now gasp “Pa-sickie!” to each other, revoltingly enough, when one of us wants paletas). If you haven’t/aren’t, though, it’s worth watching…insofar, that is, as anything is worth doing at all. Pas sûr pourquoi, mais [...]
eastwood defends casting, makes even less sense than intended
Monday 9 June 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar
“When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like Bird, I use 90% black people.”
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I’m worth a million in prizes
Thursday 3 April 2008 | 6 cookies in the jar
I came to work today, and I taught the surly bored class, on two hours’ sleep. Mostly I was able to perform this miracle because the Brujo gave me a ride to school and even managed to crack me up, first by unexpectedly, meditatively singing the chorus of ”Springtime for Hitler” and then by doing an impression of Gene Wilder moaning, “No [...]
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wise words of duluth’s bothillian (mandarin inside joke)
Thursday 28 February 2008 | I like a cookie
You always have to realize that you are constantly in the state of becoming, and as long as you can stay in that realm, you will sort of be all right. (Bob Dylan, from the documentary No Direction Home)
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lifestyles of the poor and ignominious (written in july, just now posted!)
Sunday 11 November 2007 | someone left a cookie
Here we be, living large at “the poker ranch,” wandering around its green and pleasant land in a daze and looking for the extras and the canteen tent and the makeup trailer. Because we are on a movie production set, right? It’s a Cormac McCarthy adaptation? Or Larry McMurtry? And any second now we’ll bump [...]
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cinematical postscript
Monday 29 October 2007 | 3 cookies in the jar
So I’m guessing the resounding absence of cookies from my rant contra El laberinto del fauno means that you all (those valiant few of you still hanging in here until the bitter end, that is) totally adored the film (also known, as the Editor’s father might joke, as It’s a Wonderful Spanish Civil War)?
