The promise of unnatural catastrophes turns out not to be catastrophic nor unnatural enough
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Uncertain reflections on the Coen Brothers’ misanthropy
Reflection on David Denby’s critique of the Coen brothers’ consistent misanthropy
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- 2015-01-15
- On Film, Movies, Cinema
“Hiroshima Mon Amour” (1959), Part 1
Bodies impersonal but affective are instruments of memory.
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- 2014-10-23
- On Film, Movies, Cinema
Protected: Lu gets a new bike
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- 2010-10-25
- Idle Reflections
“Pépé le Moko” (1937): Failure to Escape
Comments on the 1936 film Pépé le Moko, starring Jean Gabin, and set in the Casbah
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- 2008-06-08
- Viewing Journal On Film, Movies, Cinema
The iPhone Easily Led Me into the Future
Reflections on getting an iPhone
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- 2008-01-12
- Idle Reflections
Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” (1954): Murder as Fantasy, Sex as Violence
Rear Window appears a murder mystery in which Jeff and Lisa play amateur sleuths. In truth, the film is a fantasy about the strange gravity between sex and murder.
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- 2007-12-08
- Faves On Film, Movies, Cinema
Chet Travels: sur les bricoleurs de l’angoisse
One of the things I learned on my last trip to Paris was about this special group of individuals in French society. They have been called the “bricoleurs de l’angoisse,”...
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- 2007-09-04
- Idle Reflections Way Back
from the journals of Chet (8/6/04)
A lovely set of days in Umbria, Italy, with philosophers and one in particular.
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- 2004-08-26
- Idle Reflections Way Back