• Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Frigid February 2024 Reading & Watching

1 year 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?

1 year 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

1 year ago

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

  • On Film, Movies, Cinema

“The Seventh Continent” (1989) by Michael Haneke

1 year ago

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

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Cold January 2024: Reading and Writing

1 year 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

1 year ago

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

  • Idle Reflections

Delicious December 2023: Read, Watched

1 year ago

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

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Nihilistic November 2023 Reading and Writing

2 years ago

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

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Ominous October 2023 Reading/Writing

2 years ago

Little aliens deeply impressed by the British Invasion arrived in Philadelphia, begged me to read and watch through October.

  • New Acquisitions

Pride and Prejudice, the Movie Tie-In Edition

2 years ago

Purchased the Movie Tie-In edition of "Pride and Prejudice" to my profound moral chagrin