The so-called Glaciation Trilogy and the only Hamaguchi film I hadn’t seen, as well as David Graeber’s “Utopia of Rules”
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“71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance” (1994): Is Michael Haneke Anti-Narrative?
Elsewhere Haneke has described some of his films as anti-narrative. Is it true of “71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance”?
Continue reading...Reflections on “Benny’s Video” (1992): Image, Sound, Reality, Parental Neglect
The televisual void has sucked away all vestiges of reality from lived experience: Benny makes videos to capture what is missing.
Continue reading...“The Seventh Continent” (1989) by Michael Haneke
“The Seventh Continent” is Australia, where Georges, Anna, and Eva are going to live, right after they annihilate all vestiges of their material existences.
Continue reading...Cold January 2024: Reading and Writing
Greatest hits of January 2023: The Manchurian Candidate, Austerlitz, Blood Meridian, King Lear, and The Long Good Friday
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- 2024-02-03
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
The Arden Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
On the second series edition of the Arden Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra”, both this particular 1991 printing as well as on the content more generally
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- 2024-01-07
- New Acquisitions On Literature, Books
Delicious December 2023: Read, Watched
The greatest hits of the last month of December: Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Broken Code by Jeff Horwitz, My Darling Clementine by John Ford and Memories of Murder by Bong Joon-Ho.
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- 2024-01-06
- Idle Reflections
Nihilistic November 2023 Reading and Writing
Greatest hits include the 1942 film “The Glass Key” and the 1993 film “Groundhog Day” and reading Schelling and reading Schiller.
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- 2023-12-02
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Ominous October 2023 Reading/Writing
Little aliens deeply impressed by the British Invasion arrived in Philadelphia, begged me to read and watch through October.
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- 2023-11-02
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Pride and Prejudice, the Movie Tie-In Edition
Purchased the Movie Tie-In edition of “Pride and Prejudice” to my profound moral chagrin
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- 2023-10-22
- New Acquisitions
Scintillating September 2023: Reading, Writing
Greatest hits of September: the charming memoir “Family Lexicon” by Natalia Ginzburg, Luchino Visconti’s “The Damned” and then “The Seven Ups”
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- 2023-10-01
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Reading Aloud: Ben Lerner’s “The Rescue”
Reading aloud a poem published in the New York Review of Books September 21, 2023 issue.
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- 2023-09-24
- Idle Reflections On Literature, Books Reading Journal
Listless July/August Reading/Writing
Reflecting on these reminds me of how great "Germany Year Zero" and "The Player" really were. Also, "Yoga" and Henry James.
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- 2023-09-09
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Dull June 2023: Reading, Watching, No Writing
Greatest reading and watching hits of June 2023 included “Men”, “Sword of Doom”, “Heat”, “Merry Wives of Windsor”, and “The Anniversary Party”.
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- 2023-07-03
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
“An Ideal Craftsman”: Psychological Horror from Walter de la Mare
“An Ideal Craftsman” follows a young boy down to the larder, happening upon a crime scene.
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- 2023-06-17
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal