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Passive Entertainment Journal: November 2012
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Monday, November 26, 2012. When I lived in Brooklyn, my roommate and I watched The Maltese Falcon. Somehow, I forgot how much fun that was until recently. Jamie and I watched The Seven Samurai. Posted by Alex Teich. Links to this post. Wednesday, November 21, 2012. Where Art Thou, Indie Rentals? Providence had two possibilities: Esta's Too on Thayer Street (is it still holding out? And the superior Acme Video near Wickenden. Philadelphia had the motherlode: Beaux Arts Video on Spruce Street, where trundl...
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Passive Entertainment Journal: Abramović- Like an Old Friend
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012. Abramović- Like an Old Friend. It seems like a lifetime ago that Jamie and I took the bus through Greenpoint and on to PS1 in Queens, where a dozen or more old films of performance art, mostly by Marina Abramović and Ulay, echoed through the nearly empty halls. I couldn't stop talking about what we'd seen, especially this:. What were we talking about? I can't think of a constructed situation that is simpler and more jolting. It exhilarates, while making me suppose that ...
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Passive Entertainment Journal: The Horror: It Begins!
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012. The Horror: It Begins! Is any indication- not to mention that there actually seems to be more than one major zombie walk. Here- these people know how to get into the spirit of it. Notice that there's already someone camped out in line,. Two hours before a midnight movie. Does every screening. In LA sell out? Most of the films in the series are the kind of camp that cluttered the horror shelves at the video store 25 years ago; I particularly remember the box for Visiting Hours.
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Passive Entertainment Journal: Slow Viewing
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Monday, November 26, 2012. When I lived in Brooklyn, my roommate and I watched The Maltese Falcon. Somehow, I forgot how much fun that was until recently. Jamie and I watched The Seven Samurai. Posted by Alex Teich. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Where Art Thou, Indie Rentals? I have a walk-in closet but it's in New Jersey. Now This Is Here. Short sharp bursts (of flavor). I write about the work of:. Charles E. Sellier Jr. Danny and Oxide Pang. Jay and Mark Duplass.
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Passive Entertainment Journal: November 2011
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Sunday, November 20, 2011. Has It All Been Done Before? A student of mine said he feels as though every movie plot has already been thought of and made- and then he qualified that, saying that it's still possible to write something original, but that increasingly, you've got to come up with unexpected and absurd ideas in order to do that. I almost wanted to agree with him, because in that moment I forgot the truth that a movie like Terri. What did you think that scene was going to be about? There was har...
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Passive Entertainment Journal: April 2012
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012. The Wonders of Genre. Every once in a while, a great genre movie gets made. Matchstick Men. Was a great genre movie. Panic. Several years ago now, was a great one. The Departed. Hardly unsung, was another. Speaking of which, my favorite Scorsese film is Cape Fear. I am thrilled that Michael Clayton. With Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck is a perfect example of a genre film with a good story and a good cast that felt like a complete waste of my time. Convention is a springboard...
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Passive Entertainment Journal: September 2012
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Thursday, September 20, 2012. Memories of the River Oaks Theater (I Mean, Don't Worry, It's Still There). Our summer travels behind us, we're now braving the humid jungle of Houston, waiting in the blind for our big career opportunities to come flapping by. A couple of weeks ago we made it out to the remarkable midnight movie series at the River Oaks Theater, which rates as essentially my favorite movie theater in the world. Or the 20th anniversary print of Taxi Driver. But the River Oaks was a good home...
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Passive Entertainment Journal: February 2012
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Sunday, February 26, 2012. Miyazaki: A Breeze for the "2D" Doldrums. And the forces that may bring armageddon (the hordes of Ohmu in the case of Nausicaa. Even turn out to be the very things that could protect and nurture the heroes, if afforded due respect. Not only that, but the people the heroes trust may turn on them. This happens in the beginning of Spirited Away. Well, the kids don't know that for sure, so why shouldn't they make the most of the situation? No Face seems to be a vicious and insatiab...
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Passive Entertainment Journal: Our Texas Halloween
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Monday, November 5, 2012. Thanks for a great Halloween, Houston. The pumpkins we carved at The Orange Show are long since collapsed. I can't let any more days go by without journaling out the rest of our cinema experiences during this, our favorite time of the year. On Wednesday night we wrapped up our annual marathon diet of horror with a screening of A Bucket of Blood. We loved Bucket of Blood. Something about its design- slasher movie with a beat artist theme- suggests a Tales From the Crypt. A rather...
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Passive Entertainment Journal: June 2012
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012. It's late June and I'm bumping down interstates to Texas in a jam-packed Civic with my wife and our ever-faithful cat. We are changing our lives. For me it's like Chapter Three; I left my home town after high school, moved east, and stayed there 16 years. Now I'm coming back. My head has been spinning a lot lately, and movies have helped. Back in Harrisburg we caught Horrible Bosses. To be about as funny as Crazy Stupid Love. Is TGI Friday's, and Horrible Bosses. While we're on th...