I finally got around to seeing it, last night, and felt compelled for some reason to record my impressions. Which lie, for you should you care, right after the jump.
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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: X-Men: First Class
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, Angel Salvadore, Apt Pupil, Ben Gazzara, blockbusters, Bryan Singer, Buck Henry, Christopher Nolan, Cuban Missile Crisis, Dan Green, Doom Patrol, Emma Frost, Frank Quitely, Gena Rowlands, Grant Morrison, Hollywood, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Inception, James McAvoy, Jeremy M. Davies, John Cassavetes, Magneto, Marc Silvestri, Michael Fassbender, Mister Sinister, Moira MacTaggert, New X-Men, Norman Jewison, Patrick Stewart, Peter Falk, Professor Xavier, Saint Jack, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Sebastian Shaw, sexiness, Seymour Cassel, short shorts, Superman Returns, The 1960s, The Holy Mountain, The Tree of Life, The Usual Suspects, Timothy Carey, Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine, X-Men, X-Men: First Class, X2 on July 11, 2011 | 11 Comments »
A D: Much like how you hated The Tree of Life, Jeremy, I hated Bryan Singer’s two X-Men films. Hated them! Jeremy: What, seriously? They made you physically ill? Yes, seriously, ill. I would have gnawed my own arm off to escape, if it hadn’t meant forfeiting my malt balls.
Art as Inheritance, part 3: Reverse Chronology
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2000AD, 500 Days of Summer, 5x2, Alan Moore, Annie Hall, Atom Egoyan, Bakha satang (Peppermint Candy), Betrayal (play), C. H. Sisson, Charlie Kaufman, Christopher Homm, Christopher Nolan, Coldplay, David Bordwell, David Hugh Jones, Dead Island, Doom House, Edward Lewis Wallant, ER, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, François Ozon, Gaspar Noé, George Furth, George S. Kaufman, Goodbye to the Past, Happy End, Harold Pinter, Iain M. Banks, Irréversible, Jamie Thraves, Jane Campion, Jay DiPietro, Jean Epstein, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jonathan Nolan, Kenneth Biller, Kurt Vonnegut, La glace à trois faces, Lee Chang-dong, Leon Prochnik's short film The Existentialist, Luis Buñuel, Marc Webb, Martin Amis, Memento, Merrily We Roll Along, Michel Gondry, Mike White, Mood House, Moss Hart, Oldrich Lipský, Peter and Vandy, Pull My Daisy, Quantum Leap, reverse chronology, Russell Banks, Sealab 2021, Seinfeld, Shrabster, Slaughterhouse-five, Spike Jonez, Star Trek: Voyager, Stephen Sondheim, Techland, The Bridge at San Luis Rey, The Human Season, The Pet Shop Boys, The Pharcyde, The Reversible Man, The Sweet Hereafter, The X-Files, Thornton Wilder, Time's Arrow, Two Friends, Use of Weapons, W. R. Burnett, Woody Allen on May 25, 2011 | 20 Comments »
I’ve been doing some research into reverse chronology (for the follow-up to my post “From ‘Doom House’ to ‘Mood House’”), and I thought I’d compile the results here. Reverse chronology is probably as old as narration itself. Once one has the idea of telling a story forward, it’s a simple enough matter to tell it [...]
I am always alike
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christopher Nolan, iain pears on August 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Without intending it, I seem to have produced a companion piece to my comments on Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. It comes from having just read Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears.
Scott Pilgrim vs. Inception for the Future of the Cinematic Imagination
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amélie, Art as Device, Christopher Nolan, Edgar Wright, Inception, Plumtree, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Princess Bride, Viktor Shklovsky on August 26, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Regarding my impassioned critique of Inception, many have asked me: “What could Nolan have done differently?” Which is one way of asking: “What could he have done that you would have liked?” At first my response was along the lines of, “Well, not doing the things he did”—but that’s flippant. And so I next tried [...]
Art as Device, and Device (When it Works) as Miracle (or, The Princess Bride vs. Inception)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Art as Device, Billy Crystal, Christopher Nolan, Ellen Page, Inception, Joshua Gordon-Levitt, Mandy Patinkin, Peter Falk, Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride, Viktor Shklovsky, William Goldman on August 20, 2010 | 15 Comments »
In my recent criticism of Inception, I took Mr. Nolan to task for his inelegant use of screenwriting devices, such as his endless reliance on (often irrelevant) exposition. Some took objection to this. (See the comment thread here, also.) To clarify: the problem is not the device, but the clumsy, bare-boned way in which it’s [...]
Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew O'Hehir, Ariadne, Bob le flambeur, Bryan Singer, Christopher Higgs, Christopher Nolan, Chuang Tzu, Cornelia Parker, Days of Heaven, Edith Piaf, George P. Cosmatos, Harold Pinter, Inception, Jean Baudrillard, Jim Emerson, Kiss Me Deadly, Lily Hoang, Paul T. Anderson, Philip K. Dick, Quentin Tarrantino, Rififi, Roman Polanski, Ron Silliman, Seinfeld, Simulacra and Simulation, The Asphalt Jungle, The Betrayal, The Dark Knight, The Gateless Gate, The Ghost, The Matrix, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Zabriskie Point on August 8, 2010 | 165 Comments »
[Update 8 Sept 10: If you're reading this, you might also be interested in my related posts, "Art as Device, and Device (When it Works) as Miracle," and "Scott Pilgrim vs. Inception for the Future of the Cinematic Imagination." —Adam] [Update 4 Oct 10: As well as this post: "More on Inception: Shot Economy and [...]
Said and Unsaid
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christopher Nolan, J.M. Coetzee on July 6, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Here are two quotes by two foreigners about America (the first obliquely-US box office return is the most important marker for studio films). Christopher Nolan, about his upcoming film Inception: When somebody’s spent years making a film and spent massive amounts of money — crazy amounts of money, really, that get spent on these huge [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Anis Shivani, Bookforum, Christopher Nolan, Cormac McCarthy, E.M. Cioran, Elizabeth Urello, Film Comment, Gabriel Blackwell, Goodreads, Hannah Simone, Helen DeWitt, Henry James, Joshua Cohen, Kent Jones, Lorrie Moore, Men's Health, Narrative Magazine, New Yorker, Preface to What Maisie Knew, R.P. Blackmur, Richard Ford, Richard Yates, Suzanne Dumesnil, Tao Lin, The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956, The Paris Review Blog, The Tree of Life, Uncle Tom, Viktor Shklovsky on May 24, 2012 | 8 Comments »
*** The premise of this essay is that criticism needs to play a central role in the revival of literature. -Anis Shivani, “What Should be the Function of Criticism Today? Subtropics *** Here are a few of the many facts strangers can learn from reading Lin’s blogs and comments on blogs: His penis measures five [...]
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