[This post began as a response to some comments made by Douglas Storm on Amber's most recent post.] The name “Viktor Shklovsky” comes up a lot at this site (I’m guilty of mentioning it in perhaps half of my posts), and one might wonder why the man and his work matters. Below, I’ll try and [...]
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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.
My Favorite New Movies of 2010
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Around a Small Mountain, Black Swan, Dogtooth, Hausu, Inception, Iron Man 2, Le Monde Vivant, Let the Right One In, Mike Stoklasa, Moon, Runaway, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Sherlock Holmes, Shutter Island, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans, The Fall, The Ghost Writer, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Where the Wild Things Are, White Material, Wild Grass, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger on January 7, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Hello and welcome to 2011. Time to make a list of what I liked and didn’t like in 2010. A word though first: I don’t consider the following definitive; I’m not trying to pronounce some final judgment on each of the following films. In ten year’s time, I might feel very differently about these movies; [...]
Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (AKA, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Steve Katz, Jean Luc Godard, Greg Gerke, Rose Alley, Jeremy M. Davies, Harry Mathews, Frank Miller, Hollis Frampton, Batman, Frank Kermode, Susan Sontag, James Peterson, Peter Wyngarde, The Sense of an Ending, Alain Resnais, Inception, Jack Horkheimer, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Banksy, Tao Lin, Ari Up, Zorn's Lemma, Against Interpretation, Annette Atkins, teaching history backwards, mnemonics, Jonah Berger, Alan T. Sorensen, Scott J. Rasmussen, "Can Negative Publicity Help?", Peyton Reed, Down with Love, Last Year at Marienbad, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Mai 68, Film Art, Britney Spears on November 14, 2010 | 10 Comments »
[This can be considered a response to this post, and its comments thread.] 1. You’ve just become the fiction editor of a small journal. You open your email and see that you’ve received 1,000 unsolicited submissions. The first ten were sent by: Carlos Shirley Jeanne Goss Jack Livingston Christine Stribling Melissa Mathieu Benjamin Tatro Tao [...]
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 [...]
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