December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Films of 2011
Here are some films from the last year. Some are on Netflix, some on their way to Netflix, some are still in theaters. In lieu of a numbered ranking, I’ll link to a video that best exemplifies the sense of urgency you should embody. A. Ludacris, Move Bitch (Get Out the Way) A Separation [dir. Farhadi] Drive [dir. Winding Refn] Take Shelter [dir. Jeff Nichols] B. The Weeknd, What You...
Dec 29th
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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On Fitzgerald
It occurred to me late last Sunday night that Scott Shepard had been on stage reading The Great Gatsby for 32 of the previous 80 hours. The Elevator Repair Service is returning to the Public Theater in March and April for a reprise of Gatz, and I can say this unequivocally; this is an important work. There have been plays - The King’s Men performing King Lear, Edwin Booth’s Hamlet, Sarah...
Dec 28th
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Albrecht Durer: Portrait of the artist as an... →
from The Economist’s fantastic double-issue out this week.
Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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On Shame, Mad Men, and Period Pieces
The style of the Sixties in Mad Men is so relentless and polished in every detail that it actually deals a death blow to authenticity. It is caricature, not authenticity, and although that, in a David Lynch sort of way, can be thrilling and effective if you subvert the style to darker devices, Mad Men isn’t sure whether it wants to be pastiche or historical realism. It wants it both ways, and...
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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“As for Robert, scarcely able to keep his place at the table, concealing beneath...”
– Marcel Proust, from Within A Budding Grove
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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“Arriving in each city, the traveler finds a past he did not know he had: the...”
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (Le città invisibili, Mondadori, Milan, 2002, p. 26 - 27, my transl.) [ “Arrivando a ogni città il viaggiatore ritrova un suo passato che non sapeva d’avere: l’estraneità di ciò che non sei più o non possiedi più aspetta al varco nei luoghi estranei e non...
Dec 20th
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“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane...”
– Albert Camus (via ramonaray)
Dec 6th
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