• Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

April Absolutions: Reading, Watching

8 months ago

The highnotes: The Letter (1940), Hobson's Choice (1954), Stefan Zweig, Henrik Ibsen. The lownotes: The Matrix (1999) and its progency,…

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Manic March 2024 Reading, Writing

9 months ago

David Graeber's "The Utopia of Rules," Michael Haneke's "Funny Games," Ida Lupino in "Women's Prison." Is it too late to…

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Frigid February 2024 Reading & Watching

9 months ago

The so-called Glaciation Trilogy and the only Hamaguchi film I hadn't seen, as well as David Graeber's "Utopia of Rules"

  • On Film, Movies, Cinema

“71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance” (1994): Is Michael Haneke Anti-Narrative?

10 months ago

Elsewhere Haneke has described some of his films as anti-narrative. Is it true of "71 Fragments of a Chronology of…

  • On Film, Movies, Cinema

Reflections on “Benny’s Video” (1992): Image, Sound, Reality, Parental Neglect

10 months ago

The televisual void has sucked away all vestiges of reality from lived experience: Benny makes videos to capture what is…

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“The Seventh Continent” (1989) by Michael Haneke

10 months ago

"The Seventh Continent" is Australia, where Georges, Anna, and Eva are going to live, right after they annihilate all vestiges…

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Cold January 2024: Reading and Writing

11 months ago

Greatest hits of January 2023: The Manchurian Candidate, Austerlitz, Blood Meridian, King Lear, and The Long Good Friday

  • Idle Reflections

The Arden Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra

11 months ago

On the second series edition of the Arden Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra", both this particular 1991 printing as well as…

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Delicious December 2023: Read, Watched

11 months ago

The greatest hits of the last month of December: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Broken Code by Jeff Horwitz, My Darling…

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Nihilistic November 2023 Reading and Writing

1 year ago

Greatest hits include the 1942 film "The Glass Key" and the 1993 film "Groundhog Day" and reading Schelling and reading…