Loading ...Inception, a brilliant and entertaining film, continues a trajectory begun by many others of the past decade or so (Nolan’s own Memento, Dark City, The Matrix, Strange Days, etc.). These films blur the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, the (mis)remembered, or the purely mediated, and Inception is no exception, which makes it, frankly, not [...]
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Watchmen again
March 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off · General
I watched the Watchmen again last night, and I can now make a correction and an observation. First the correction. The shot I mention a couple posts earlier with the blimp moving towards the WTC is in the background of Ozymandias’s office. He is giving a speech that starts: “The conflict with the Soviets is [...]
I just randomized my Netflix queue
March 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments · General
and it feels so refreshing. I just logged into Netflix and noticed a lot of changes due to badsegue’s Netflix Queue Manager, a Greasemonkey script I had forgotten I had installed. The script changes the appearance of the queue, and lets you shuffle or reverse the queue, as well as sort by genre, availiability, star, [...]
Long takes in two movies
February 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · General
I’ve been thinking about why I hated Atonement so much, and why so many people don’t. Part of it is what I take to be its incompleteness. A thwarted love story turns into a meandering, half-done war movie, tied together or torn apart, apparently, by a little girl’s dishonesty, which I failed to bring myself to care [...]
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Media sites
February 7th, 2008 · Comments Off · General
I have been mulling over a project for awhile now that would basically serve to put together film, media, digital technology theory sites, blogs and resources all in one place. Not only a list of resources, which would be part of it, but also perhaps a running feed of blogs, news and whatever else. I [...]
WGA Strike
November 6th, 2007 · Comments Off · General
So the much anticipated Writers Guild of America strike has started. I don’t have much to say about it right now, but there is a twitter feed that will keep you abreast of developments. That’s where I found this USA Today article featuring Tina Fey and Sth Meyers on a picket line.
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