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Showing posts with label criticism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label criticism. Show all posts
1.1.20

Movies That Love The Written Word

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In this post, I talk about movies that have a loving relationship to books and to reading. Pulp Fiction's title is certainly a lov...
6.7.14

Movie Review: Le Petit Amour (Kung-Fu Master!)

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Jane Birkin and Mathieu Demy in  Le Petit Amour ( Kung Fu Master! ), Dir. Agnès Varda (1988) I recently saw  Le Petit Amour   ( Kung-F...
17.6.14

Museum Review: Bacchus/Silenus Statuette from the Hill Collection (at the Frick)

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A review of the Frick Collection's bronze statuettes collected by Janine and J. Tomilson Hill. Attributed to Adriaen de Vries, Bacchu...
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...
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...
23.5.11

On Thinking About Creativity: Are We Artists Or Not?

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Creators come in different shapes, colors, and sizes! If you think you may be a writer, an illustrator, a photographer, a graphic design...
17.1.11

This is Just to Say; Or, A Reflection on Desire

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William Carlos William's very short poem "This Is Just To Say" frustrated me on my first read. Is this a poem? These few words...
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10.1.11

Lyotard's Caution on Taste

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image credit: © Greig Roselli   "There could be no greater misunderstanding of judgments of taste than to declare them simply un...
15.9.10

Book Review: Repulsion as Metaphor in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Met Go

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Never Let Me Go     K azuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go has recently been released as a film, due out in theaters today. I am a...
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22.8.10

Movie Review: Salt

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In this post, I review the new Angelina Jolie movie Salt. image credit: NYT Despite insane physical hijinks, Salt (2010) is a pretty da...
20.8.10

Billy Elliot, Anatomy of a Scene: "You Can't Take That Out on a Junior Ticket"

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In this blog post, I take apart one scene from the Stephen Daldry film Billy Elliot. Stones of Erasmus TpT Store       Stephen Dald...
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15.8.10

Salo: A Film You Really Don't Need To See

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Learn about the Pasolini film  Salò . It's another film I add to my list of films I cannot stomach to watch completely.   Salò , or ...
11.8.10

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

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In this post, I write a comparison essay outlining differences in "cave allegory" imagery in Plato's Republic and Ralph Elli...
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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...
4.4.10

Repost from Kurt Vonnegut: Liberal Crap I Don't Want to Hear Anymore

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To commemorate Easter Sunday, I am posting a Vonnegut interview. On September 13, 2005,  Jon Stewart interviewed Kurt Vonn...
10.8.09

Movie Review: Some Like It Queer

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Some Like It Hot   —  Directed by Billy Wilder  —  Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Joe E. Brown      Some Like It Ho...
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12.3.08

Book Review: The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald

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Pairing image with text in a narrative is contradictory : the flowing voice of the narrator with the frozen, almost totemic, images, is a st...
7.3.07

Book Review: The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist

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In The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist by Emile Habiby, a Palestinian illegally gains re-entry into Israel after the deportation ...
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8.5.06

Book Review: Body, Pain, Torture and the Cogito - Unmaking and Making of the World in Anil’s Ghost

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In a civilization preoccupied with images, information, speed and efficiency, a wash of “words, words, words” there is still an origin of kn...
22.2.06

Milton’s ‘Methought I Saw My Late Espousèd Saint’: Eros, Lust and ‘Writing a Prostitute’

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Methought I saw my late espousèd saint… Leo Spitzer, replying to a colleague’s claim that Milton is an inferior poet to...