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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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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Mel Gibson’s Hamlet, all films Kenneth Branagh, Sleuth, Joseph Mankiewicz, Thor, and superhero movies (every one)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, A Simple Plan, All About Eve, Ang Lee, Anthony Hopkins, Asgard, Batman Returns, Beta Ray Bill, Brian Blessed, calypso, Carmelo Bene, CGI, Chris Hemsworth, claustric, comics, Darkman, David Lynch, détournement, Dead Again, Diabolik, Eric the Viking, Frank Langella, Galactus, Geneviève Bujold, George Lucas, greenscreen, Grigori Kozintsev, Hamlet, Harold Pinter, Henry V, Hulk, Ichi the Killer, J.J. Abrams, Jack Kirby, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Tourneur, Jane Campion, Jeremy M. Davies, John Gardner, John Milius, Joseph Mankiewicz, Kenneth Branagh, Kirby dots, Krull, Kuleshov Effect, Last Life in the Universe, Laurel Canyon, Lawrence of Arabia, Loki, Love Me Tonight, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Masters of the Universe, Mel Gibson, motion capture, Myrna Loy, Night of the Hunter, Norse mythology, Odin, On Moral Fiction, One Hamlet Less, Paul Verhoeven, Peter Jackson, Richard Kelly, Robert MItchum, Roger Ebert, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, Sam Raimi, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Senses of Cinema, Shakespeare, Showgirls, Sleuth, Star Trek, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, superheroes, Superman II, Superman the Movie, Tadanobu Asano, Tales of Asgard, The Avengers, The Bad Sleep Well, The Box, The Lord of the Rings, The Mighty Thor, The Phantom Menace, The Portrait of a Lady, Thor, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Stoppard, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Wilkes-Barre, Willow on May 30, 2011 | 9 Comments »

[You want to read the earlier installments, and we want to help you: Part 1, Part 2] [Drumming our fingers on the tabletop, humming along to Debbie Gibson, we contemplated just walking out on our waitress, when Jeremy remembered a Payday he had in his pocket. Passing it back and forth, we resumed our conversation.] [...]

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“Is Your Villain Appropriate?”—Examining Character Construction in Different Media

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alice Krige, character, Charlie Chaplin, City Lights, Darth Vader, Don Quixote, F.W. Murnau, Hamlet, Humbert Humbert, Inception, Jacques Tati, John Gielgud, Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot, Lolita, Lost, Mad Men, Magic: The Gathering, Mark Rosewater, Phyrexian, Richard Burton, Salman Rushdie, Samuel Beckett, Sancho Panza, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Wars, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, The Borg, The Office, The Unnamable, The Wire, Vladimir Nabokov, William Gass on March 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Every Monday, I read Mark Rosewater’s weekly column “Making Magic,” partly because I have a casual interest in the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering (I once played it, and some of my friends still play it), but mainly because Rosewater routinely offers great insights into aesthetics and game design. (He’s also a strong writer [...]

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Good Old NeonLeaks: Transparency in Politics and Literature

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Foster Wallace, Good Old Neon, Hamlet, Liar Liar, transparency, WikiLeaks on December 13, 2010 | 24 Comments »

The WikiLeaks story is dramatic on so many levels, with a character at center stage, Julian Assange, worthy of Shakespeare: accused of sexual impropriety and putting lives at risk, touting an idealistic mission of transforming global geopolitics by turning them inside-out, inspiring the creation of a hall of mirror-sites and spawning cyber-attacks on his behalf [...]

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Tiny Shocks Revisited (A Continuing Criticism of James Wood’s How Fiction Works)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Breathless (1960), Chekhov, defamiliarization, enstragement, estrangement, Frank Kermode, Hamlet, How Fiction Works, James Wood, John Barth, John Gardner, Last Tango in Paris, Nigel Beale, Nog, ostranenie, Planet of the Apes (1968), Rudolph Wurlitzer, The 400 Blows, The Concept of Character in Fiction, The Literature of Exhaustion, Theory of Prose, Viktor Shklovsky, William H. Gass, Zabriskie Point on February 22, 2010 | 32 Comments »

Earlier today John pointed toward Nigel Beale’s cleverly-titled criticism of my post “Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works.” I’m looking forward to Nigel’s longer criticism; in the meantime I thought I’d reply regarding the mistakes Wood makes in his readings of Viktor Shklovsky and William H. Gass, since Nigel [...]

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Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ann Quin, B.S. Johnson, Breathless (1960), Breathless (1983), Chekhov, Cthulhu, Curtis White, Flaubert, G.I. Joe, Hamlet, Henry James, How Fiction Works, James Wood, Jean Luc Godard, Jean-François Lyotard, John Gardner, John Ruskin, Last Tango in Paris, Les Carabiniers, Madame Bovary, Nabokov, ostranenie (enstrangement), Saul Bellow, The 400 Blows, The Concept of Character in Fiction, The Middle Mind, Theodore Adorno, Theory of Prose, Three Blondes and Death, Tripticks, Viktor Shklovsky, Watchmen, William H. Gass, Yuriy Tarnawsky on January 31, 2010 | 42 Comments »

[Update: As if this post weren't long enough, there's now a Part 2.] On January 22, I read Shya Scanlon’s post “The Dull King”; on January 25 I read his second post “Cover Your Tracks.” Both were about reading James Wood’s How Fiction Works. Before that I’d heard of James Wood but hadn’t read anything [...]

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