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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Midnight in Paris (and other recent Woody Allens)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 8½, A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, Alain Resnais, Alan Rudolph, Annie Hall, Brad Stevens, Cassandra’s Dream, Celebrity, Chronicles of Prydain, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Curse of the Cat People, David Bordwell, Deconstructing Harry, Djuna Barnes, Drôle de drame, Elaine May, Ernest Hemingway, Federico Fellini, George Lucas, Gremlins 2, Gustav Mahler, Hamlet, Ingmar Bergman, Jean Luc Godard, Jeremy M. Davies, Joe Dante, Jon Lovitz, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kenneth Branagh, Killer of Sheep, La Dolce Vita, La Strada, Larry David, Les Enfants du Paradis, Lolita, Lucinella, Manuel de Oliveira, Match Point, Melinda and Melinda, Midnight in Paris, Owen Wilson, Philip Glass, Scoop, Sight & Sound, Sleeper, Small Time Crooks, Stardust Memories, Starry Night, Sweet and Lowdown, Take the Money and Run, Terrence Malick, The Designated Mourner, The Moderns, The New Yorker, Thundarr the Barbarian, Tina Brown, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Vilmos Zsigmond, Vincent Van Gogh, Vivre sa vie, Wallace Shawn, Whatever Works, Wild Grass, Wild Strawberries, Woman in the Dunes, Woody Allen, X-Men: First Class on June 20, 2011 | 10 Comments »

[Last weekend, en route to Madagascar, Jeremy M. Davies swung by my Chicago atelier to hear my neighbor perform Mahler’s "Quartet for Strings and Piano in A Minor" on his singing saw. Fifteen minutes in, two other friends stopped by, bearing bootleg DVDs of three new films: Midnight in Paris, The Tree of Life, and [...]

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Report from the middle of The Recognitions

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Ernest Hemingway, The Recognitions, William Faulkner, William Gaddis on October 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »

(First post on The Recognitions) In the middle of this wonderful book, many characters are running around trying to one up most everyone else–most significantly the character Recktall Brown (yes, Recktall Brown) has the forger Wyatt making false masterpieces of 500 year old Flemish Art. But Otto, the failed and flailing playwright, in love with [...]

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Summer? Reading

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bonnie Jo Campbell, Christian TeBordo, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Hesse, Ken Sparling, Naquib Mahfouz, Pete Fromm, Rachel Glaser, Sasha Fletcher, Summer Reading on June 9, 2010 | 38 Comments »

Sure, I understand summer is when kids and teachers have months-worth of vacation time. When people of means take trips to Hawaii or something. But for most of us, summer just means it’s better weather out while we’re inside working. So, by all means, make summer reading lists. But why not just make reading lists. [...]

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Guest Post, by Adam Robinson: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Farewell to Arms, Adam Robinson, Ernest Hemingway on May 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »

“I sat in the chair and looked at the floor and prayed for Catherine.” –From Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms

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Posts Tagged ‘Ernest Hemingway’

A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Midnight in Paris (and other recent Woody Allens)

Report from the middle of The Recognitions

Summer? Reading

Guest Post, by Adam Robinson: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love

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