November 2009
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A rat's asshole, or how to know you've been sold...
Tomorrow is the first day of December, otherwise known as Avatar Month, and in the face of Cameron’s grand reinvention of the cinema, I am aware of two things:
1. I can’t wait to see this movie,
2. I don’t want to see it in 3-D.
This runs against the intention. The film was designed for 3-D: the 3-D is the “reinvention.” I recently saw the first two Toy Story films...
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Film update: This Thing Is Bigger Than The Both Of... →
This Thing Is Bigger Than The Both Of Us: The Secret of String will screen once again, this time in Toronto, at the Latvian House on December 5 at 8 p.m. I know this link makes it look like a trick, but I promise you, buried among the Daniel Cockburnly goodness is at least one minute of film by Matthew “Centipede” Brown.
The program screened recently in Rotterdam, Berlin, and Seoul.
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Mamo #155: She said, he said →
Pretend we didn’t just do a show where we spent the first ten minutes slagging girl-centric crap like Twilight and New Moon and then proceeded to geek out about boy candy like Avatar, Thor,…
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What 2001 is about
This morning one of my colleagues asked me to describe (in email) what 2001: A Space Odyssey is about. I couldn’t do that nor could I answer “no,” so I put the question to the social network. Here is the consensus:
Erin B.: The dangers of relying too heavily on technology?
Richard B.: I’d say it’s about the dangerous potential of new technology. Once you’ve...
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Don't trust slim hardcover books in white jackets.
I’ve read two faintly terrible books in the last 2 days, both of which were slender tomes published under white dust covers and likely written in about six minutes.
Ignore Everybody was a loaner from a friend, a series of artmaking tips. There were perhaps 2 good distinctions buried under the poor writing and thin veil of misogyny. These had to do with “sex and cash” - having...
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What it's like to be back
I am returned from Germany, and have answered “how was Germany” enough times in the past week to have boiled the multi-paragraph response down to a single sound byte:
“It was good.”
I have lost the preceding week to continued illness, computer failure, and general listlessness, and am concerned that if I don’t Get It Together soon, I may have to retreat to the...
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Good time to be a boy
Going to see 2012 just now, treated to 3 excellent new trailers which impressively amped up my interest in their respective properties:
The Wolfman, a vast improvement over the first trailer and a sinful glimpse at what the movie could really do;
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, ludicrous and overblown, making me wish the 4th Pirates movie could be just that kind of batshit eye candy;
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Megatron Fox
I continue to find Megan Fox fascinating for all the wrong reasons. (The right reasons for a man to be fascinated by Fox are, in order, her Empire Magazine cover, that 2 minute makeout scene in Jennifer’s Body, and that shot of her leaning over the hood of the car in Transformers 1.)
This article in the New York Times is the most exhaustive study of the Hollywood property in gestation...
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