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Dynamic: 01: Thoughts on Taxi Driver (1976)
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Sunday, October 5, 2008. One of my very favorite pieces of literature is Herman Melville’s short story,. Travis Bickle does not participate but not for lack of trying. He is pathologically incapable of conducting a comfortable conversation, most especially with women who he is sexually attracted to. He is a romantic, but at every turn he sees proof that he shouldn’t be: in the New York where he lives, Scorsese evokes the palpable decay, both literal and moral, of a city feeding on itself. A nigger. A...
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Dynamic: 01: Reconsidering Burn After Reading
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Monday, September 29, 2008. I found myself thinking about God the other night, and the universe, and the term, “Third Rock from the Sun” (did that term originate from the John Lithgow television series? Why is it that people have to anthropomorphize the source of creation? Entity. It is an unconscious natural phenomenon. If you want to call an unconscious natural force God, so be it, but then it is not a thinking, feeling, caring, opinionated,. Creator. God is science and vice-versa. The original C review.
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Dynamic: 01: NTF Flickr Screencaps (Uploaded May 30, 2009)
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Monday, May 3, 2010. NTF Flickr Screencaps (Uploaded May 30, 2009). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (2007). Burn After Reading (2008). The Usual Suspects (1995). Do the Right Thing (1989). Natural Born Killers (1994). Batman: The Dark Knight (2008). Paths of Glory (1957). The Devil's Backbone (2001). The Last Detail (1973). The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007). Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
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Dynamic: 01: Various (Uploaded June 3, 2009)
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Various (Uploaded June 3, 2009). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (2007). Burn After Reading (2008). The Usual Suspects (1995). Do the Right Thing (1989). Natural Born Killers (1994). Batman: The Dark Knight (2008). Paths of Glory (1957). The Devil's Backbone (2001). The Last Detail (1973). The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007). Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).
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Dynamic: 01: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989)
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Monday, August 11, 2008. Do the Right Thing. Ack in May, at the Cannes Film Festival, both Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood had new films being exhibited: Eastwood,. Lee’s a WWII drama about black infantrymen called. The Miracle at St. Anna. Lee mentioned being dismayed at the absence of black soldiers in Eastwood’s. Flags of Our Fathers. Flags of Our Fathers. Do the Right Thing. Am I advocating violence? But goddamn, the days of 25 million Blacks being silent while our fellow brothers [. Not gonna go away: ...
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Dynamic: 01: Natural Born Killers (1994)
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Friday, August 1, 2008. F there is one element of the film that could be called genius, then it would have to be Oliver Stone’s ability to make it. 8221; I don’t know what it was exactly, but the film seemed oozing with unspeakable offenses against wholesomeness and decency. Of course, I was a kid, but even looking at stills from the film today, it strikes me at how much sleazier and transgressive it. Compared to how it really is when you watch it and realize it’s just a bunch of silliness. Merits none),...
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Dynamic: 01: The Usual Suspects (1995)
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Friday, September 5, 2008. I don’t see how rabid fans of. And all that exposition he pulled out of his ass (you know,. Christopher McQuarrie’s screenplay seems to have been written with the end first. The premise is interesting: a meek, bullied little two-bit thief is actually a fearsome and dangerous criminal mastermind. And he’s right there in plain sight the whole time. 8220;I’ve eaten scum like you for breakfast, chum”. 8220;Chum rhymes with scum, tough guy.”. 8220;Oh, am I? 8220;This job is big, pal,.
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Dynamic: 01: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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Sunday, October 19, 2008. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 8220;Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”. Poole himself seems mildly disgusted during this sequence, and the music played over Poole’s birthday chat with his parents is sorrowful. Keir Dullea seems at cursory inspection to be a rather bland choice for Dr. David Bowman, the other conscious astronaut aboard the. The Thin Red Line. After Dave returns from a finally futile attempt to retrieve the drifting body of the malicio...
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Dynamic: 01: Michelangelo Antonioni's L’avventura (1960)
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Sunday, September 21, 2008. Picnic at Hanging Rock. Whether the disappearance is literal or not can be puzzled over for hours – the whole film presents itself in a protracted state of meditative aimlessness, saying nothing, revealing nothing, doing nothing, really, but at the same time, expressing everything. Some audiences don’t like to fill in the blanks provided by a film, but what is art if not a communication of sensibilities? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. In the Vall...
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