It is very rarely given that a 21st century reader can fully appreciate a 19th century novel. But I had an unexpected insight today. This morning, as I was reading some more of Consuming Passions by Judith Flanders, I came upon an advertisement for Hearn’s Lamps dating from the very end of the 19th century. [...]
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Electric Holmes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Judith Flanders, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on October 9, 2011 | 6 Comments »
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Friends, Woody Allen, The Man from London, Sucker Punch, Zardoz, Tron, Willow, and Shoot ‘Em Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, AMC River East 21, Applebee's, Avatar, Bass/Rankin, Béla Tarr, Chad and Jeremy, Cindy Morgan, cinema, cineplexes, Duncan Jones, Eastern Promises, Elliot Gould, film distribution, films, Fox & Obel, Friends (TV show), Hollywood, James Bell, Jeremy M. Davies, Jim Jarmusch, Joel Schumacher, John Boorman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Justin, Legend (film), Marshall McLuhan, Monica Bellucci, movies, narrative, Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja, Sherlock Holmes, Shoji Ueda, Shoot ‘Em Up, Sight and Sound, Source Code, Sucker Punch, Television, The Last Unicorn, The Man from London, The NeverEnding Story, Thor, Tilda Swinton, To the Bracken Fields, Tron, Tron Legacy, Warebi no kou, Wendy Carlos, Willow, Woody Allen, Zack Snyder, Zardoz on May 16, 2011 | 16 Comments »
[Last weekend, while en route to Abu Dhabi, my good friend Jeremy swung by my cold-water Chicago flat. After a lengthy Indian-wrestling match, we headed downtown to the AMC River East 21, where we caught a screening of Duncan Jones’s latest film, Source Code. Two hours later, expelled into the brisk April evening, we hunkered [...]
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; [...]
Why Genre Will Prevail, in Peace and Freedom from Fear, and in True Health, through the Purity and Essence of Its Natural Fluids, God Bless You All
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Antichrist, Cats, fantasy, genre, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Milton, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paradise Lost, Peter Jackson, Sherlock Holmes, T.S. Eliot, The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Thomas Pynchon on January 25, 2010 | 25 Comments »
re: John M. recently quoting something that Paul wrote at his blog, and re: Roxane’s recent post and the resulting epic thread regarding writing and its worth, I’d like to pick a bit more at the bones of genre fiction. I love genre, because genres are basically conventions. They’re expectations that both authors and readers [...]
From Fellini to Obama?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 8½, Fellini, From Caligari to Hitler, Gary Cross, Men to Boys, Nine, Obama, Sherlock Holmes, Siegfried Kracauer, The Zeitgeist on January 2, 2010 | 22 Comments »
So Nine bombed. But I don’t want to talk about that movie, which I haven’t seen. I’d rather talk about Fellini, but only to get someplace else…
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