• On Film, Movies, Cinema

The Master (2012): “Where Are the Naked White Women?!”

2 weeks ago
Ashley Vaught

Paul Thomas Anderson again bends reality to his will in his 2012 film "The Master", with naked women resulting.

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Jejune June 2025 Consumption

3 months ago

Greatest hits: "To the Lighthouse" and "Sexy Beast" and Parasite"; Low blows: "Iron Man 3"

  • Viewing Journal

Law & Order, “Damaged”: Who Can Consent?

3 months ago

Aging badly, we say, so certain of our contemporary judgment. Hindsight is 20-fucking-20!

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Monotonous May 2025 Consumption

4 months ago

Greatest hits: "To Live and Die in L.A." and "Floating Clouds" and "To the Lighthouse". Low blows: "City of Industry"…

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Anxious April 2025: Consumption

5 months ago

Greatest hits: Henrik Pontoppidan, "Lucky Per"; the 2024 series "Shōgun"; the long-awaited second season of the Disney series "Andor"; disappointments:…

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

March 2025: Reading, Viewing

6 months ago

Greatest Hits: "Triangle of Sadness", "Secrets & Lies", "Shampoo", and the 1989 "Lonesome Dove" series. Misses: "Ahsoka"?

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Fearful February 2025: Reading, Viewing

7 months ago

Triumphs: "The Red Shoes" and "Picnic at Hanging Rock"! Flaubert's "Sentimental Education"!

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Enervating Enero 2025, Reading and Writing

8 months ago

All of the books and films don't amount to much when political terror begins.

  • On Literature, Books

Hope or Memory in the Irony of the Romantic Disillusionment: Lukác’s “Theory of the Novel”

8 months ago

The episodes of the romantic novel are sundered, one from the other, but "irradiated" by hope and memory.

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Dissonant December 2024: Reading, Viewing

9 months ago

Greatest Hits: "Carefree", "Geology Bites" on sedimentary bias, "The Cheese and the Worms" (very sexy stuff)