February 2010
4 posts
Anticlimax
Girl: Speaking of meeting directors, have you heard of Alfonso Cuaron?
Me: !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Girl: Yeah. I met his son once.
Me: Oh.
Knowing when to say when
Cinematical: Do you feel differently about Mark as a character now, as a husband and father, than you would have a few years ago? When you were 25, could you have made this movie? Jason Reitman: No, I definitely have a different perspective now. And I think there’s something to be said about that, about when people should make certain films and the life experience you need to tell certain...
January 2010
27 posts
This is kind of horrifying while being... →
(via isawitonthetelevision)
Thanks for sharing this. Do you remember a while back when I thought I might be addicted to the internet? I found this quiz online, and was almost disappointed to discover that I fell into (but just barely) the normal range. I don’t know now what I’m supposed to think after reading this article - maybe that everything we experience in the West, no matter...
1 tag
Is it still dramatic irony when it happens in real...
Tonight:
Friend #1: (phone rings) Hello? … Yeah, we’re watching a movie. Come over.
Me: Who was that?
Friend #1: That was Friend #2. The guy she just started dating suddenly stopped returning her calls, and won’t answer the door. She sounded pretty broken up, so I invited her over to our girls’ movie night.
Me: What are you watching?
Friend #1 (who is a little bit...
Bertrand Russell at 84.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy—ecstasy so great...
“If ever there were an appropriate time to use the word frisson, this is it....”
– First order of business when I get back to Canader: subscribe to The Believer. And also The Economist, or maybe the New Yorker if I end up in New York. These are good things to have. (via whitebears
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I have my sights on The Believer, too; tho’ my criterion is having a jorb.
(via...
“If ever there were an appropriate time to use the word frisson, this is it....”
– First order of business when I get back to Canader: subscribe to The Believer. And also The Economist, or maybe the New Yorker if I end up in New York. These are good things to have.
isawitonthetelevision:
whitebears:
I just went to a movie night with friends. The movie that “all” agreed upon in this group of adults was Planet 51, ostensibly because it is “upbeat” and “harmless” (these words were actually said).
Meanwhile, Mulholland Drive was loading on my computer. Oh, that I could listen to Emerson and speak up in moments like these. Must it really be a question of...
I just went to a movie night with friends. The movie that “all” agreed upon in this group of adults was Planet 51, ostensibly because it is “upbeat” and “harmless” (these words were actually said).
Meanwhile, Mulholland Drive was loading on my computer. Oh, that I could listen to Emerson and speak up in moments like these. Must it really be a question of...
“Music represents an ideal world where all dissonances resolve, where all...”
– Murray Perahia
Seeing him in recital in Mannheim on the 14th!!!
“I’m an eternal optimist, but I truly believe we can shift massively on this...”
– It’s difficult for me to comprehend how generous Radiohead is. I think generous is the right word. How many times could they have stopped, plateau’d? There are, after all, still people who love Pablo Honey. (Not many … but they’re there.) Bends is its own thing. OK Computer...
Outrageously profane ... and surprisingly tender
Found this on the apple trailers page:
“44 Inch Chest is a provocative, outrageously profane and surprisingly tender film amidst an explosion of unbridled testosterone. The movie explores the masculine ego at breaking point, testing whether fear is stronger than love. Colin (Ray Winstone) is in agony, shattered by his wife’s (Joanne Whalley) infidelity. However, he has friends who do more...
Addendum: The one good thing about Sherlock Holmes
was the first ten seconds of music, which sounded like the piano bit at the end of Wozzeck. Niice.
Sherlock Holmes was an awful film.
isawitonthetelevision:
tmblg:
He may have spoken indecipherably, but this was one of the few recent big-$ action hero movies (viz. Dark Knight) whose actions scenes were more than coloured blurbs of fury — I could actually tell who was hitting whom and even understood why. That’s valuable and rare. 60 million-valuable-&-rare? Maybe.
timwilkinson:
How the fuck did it make $60M+ this...
December 2009
14 posts
“Please don’t think me presumptuous if I give you the analogy of, say, a painter...”
– Telescope: A Talk with Hitchcock (1964) (via parasitologist)
Me to lifeguard co-workers: “Lolita is a great book. I just finished it last week. What a marvelous writer.” Lifeguard co-worker girl: “What’s it about?” Me: “Well, pedophilia, I guess - like there’s this guy who lusts after a preteen...
“I can imagine Robert Zemeckis - whose botched motion-capture animated features...”
– Some guy on the Auteurs. Awesome, eh? (via isawitonthetelevision)
“And then, high above it … a blue alien.” (So simple, yet so perfect?)
isawitonthetelevision:
“Transformers” is also casually racist. But hey, that’s entertainment.”
— Manohla Dargis in her year’s review
Man, why have I not heard of Manohla Dargis before? She is excellent. What a fresh perspective and fresh writing, and I am tickled silly by her decision to review not movies but moments in movies, which is how I think most of us remember movies anyway.
A...
“Now, you can either have the washer and dryer … or you can trade it all in...”
– This tumblr thing is dangerous. I have already posted more often in this than I have in the last half year on my blog (and not just reblogs either - I have written way more words).
I am enthralled. My tumblarity is 24. This means nothing to me. And yet, all I can think about is: How do I get more...
isawitonthetelevision:
(via whitebears)
That said: dramas tend to be more raved about in the post-Christmas frenzy for their focus on character and story over more generic elements in comedies or rom-coms whose impetus is usually financial and market-share accessible - that is, delivering expectations and not toying with them.
I think this is an easily thing to believe, but I don’t think...
Most loved & admired films of the '00s - a...
isawitonthetelevision:
1. The Wrestler (2008)
2. In Bruges (2008)
3. Into the Wild (2007)
4. Rachel Getting Married (2008)
5. Babel (2006)
6. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
7. Superbad (2007)
8. There Will Be Blood (2006)
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
What about “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” for an even tenth?
Thought about it, but it doesn’t fit with the...
“I think it’s depressing that Judd Apatow makes the best romantic comedies...”
– Manohla Dargis on women in film
This statement I find incredibly true, and while it is not so promising for women, which is ultimately Dargis’s point, I can’t help but feel good about it. Not because a “women’s” genre is being done better by a man, but because a...
Most loved & admired films of the '00s - a...
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1. The Wrestler (2008)
2. In Bruges (2008)
3. Into the Wild (2007)
4. Rachel Getting Married (2008)
5. Babel (2006)
6. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
7. Superbad (2007)
8. There Will Be Blood (2006)
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
I announce myself
isawitonthetelevision:
Maybe I (and we all) grow weary of those we love, too. I don’t know. Frankly, I don’t want to know. (Actually, I do. But that was too good a quote to give up. … a REBLOG to anyone who can name that episode!)
…
Srsly. A reblog.
I have no idea if I am doing this reblog thing correctly (srsly: being on Tumblr makes me feel thrice my age). Yet I thought it a fitting...