Reflecting on these reminds me of how great "Germany Year Zero" and "The Player" really were. Also, "Yoga" and Henry James.
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Cultural Consumption, 2022-Style! Best of!
The best books and films of 2022, some description thereof, as well as a few of the worst.
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- 2022-12-31
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
August-alia 2022: Reading, Watching
Birthday months are great for watching Antonioni trilogies, Premingers’ “In Harm’s Way,” reading “The Haunting of Hill House” and “The Shawl.”
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- 2022-09-03
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Blithely Read Ulysses, Watched et al.: Feb 2022
In February 2022 I started reading “Ulysses” by James Joyce, “Odyssey”, watched “The Killing” (1956) and other things like the Russian film “T-34”
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- 2022-03-05
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Stanley Kubrick’s “The Killing” (1956): Misanthropy Run Amok
"The Killing" makes murder a spectacle, something beautiful, peopled with a group of ne’er-do-wells whose destruction we will undoubtedly enjoy.
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- 2022-02-22
- On Film, Movies, Cinema Viewing Journal
Read, Viewed: August 2021
Moments of grace: finishing Lois Lowry’s "Number the Stars," Edith Wharton’s "Ethan Frome", and viewing again the 2000 film "Sexy Beast."
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- 2021-09-04
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Read & Viewed: July 2021
What I read—James. M Cain, Galileo—was more memorable than what I viewed—”The Glory Stompers,” “Marnie”—during the month of July. The former does not include “Portnoy’s Complaint.”
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- 2021-08-03
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
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