[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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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 | 19 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 [...]
My Favorite New Movies of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Andrzej Wajda, Antichrist, Bill Murray, Bradley Beesley, Bright Star, Bruno Delbonnel, Chaos Reigns, Chris Marker, Christian Petzold, Christmas on Mars, Christoph Waltz, David Mamet, David Yates, Fanny Brawne, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Frank Miller, George Salisbury, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hayao Miyazaki, Il Divo, Inglourious Basterds, J.J. Abrams, Jane Campion, Jerichow, John Keats, Katyń, Lars von Trier, Les Plages d’Agnès, Mike Stoklasa, Nicolas Roeg, Nightwatching, Oren Peli, Paolo Sorrentino, Paranormal Activity, Peter Greenaway, Ponyo, Puffball, Quentin Tarantino, Redbelt, Rembrandt, Richard Kelly, Ricky Jay, Rita Tushingham, sexism, Star Trek, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review, The Beaches of Agnes, The Box, The Spirit, torture porn, Tsai Ming-Liang, Visage (Face), Watchmen, Wayne Coyne, Wes Anderson, Whatever Works, Woody Allen, Zack Snyder on December 31, 2009 | 21 Comments »
[Update: 2010 is here] Here are my favorite new movies of 2009, like you care. I’m drawing from the films I saw in the theater this year, some of which were “officially” released a year or two ago. But they’re all new. …So, Mr. Cranky, what did you like?
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