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August 31, 2012August 26, 2012 - Uncategorized

Feature Friday: “Dark Star” (1974)

I caught up with Dark Star only a few years back, at one of the Music Box‘s science-fiction marathons. I…

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June 22, 2012June 25, 2012 - Uncategorized

On Prometheus, Berlin’s O2 arena, Wings of Desire, androids, assemblages, agencements, corporate-imperial subjects and rebels, translator-traitors, and pain.

    Recently, walking along the Berlin Wall near the Oberbaumbrücke: there, at the opening of the bridge, you saw…

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June 12, 2012June 13, 2012 - Uncategorized

Trapped in the Echo Chamber

With Prometheus, this summer’s companion piece to the science fiction classic Alien, Ridley Scott has made the exact sort of…

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May 23, 2011July 11, 2011 - Uncategorized

A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Moon, and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

[You click this link, you go back to the first installment, which found me and Jeremy unable to get service…

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July 1, 2010July 16, 2010 - Uncategorized

Gabriel Orgrease: On Ritual

“The dissociation I seek, in writing and in life is where I become to myself something alien and other.”

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