January 2011
16 posts
“Lists are a form of cultural hysteria.”
– DeLillo
Jan 31st
“I’ll tell you what. If I was in the junior-high school again, I’d do...”
– Adam Levin, The Instructions. [I know this is probably TL;DR for tumblr, but I couldn’t not post such a brilliant monologue.]
Jan 24th
“Slacker was that kind of film from the generation that was probably the first to...”
– Linklater
Jan 20th
belated top 20 of 2010, w/ commentary
It’s too late to be relevant and nobody cares anyway, but for posterity or whatever, here’s my top 20 films of 2010, with commentary: #20: The Other Guys [In its first two-thirds, the latest collaboration from Adam McKay and Will Ferrell — the Kurosawa and Mifune of comedy — is so jam-packed with running gags, reversals, absurdities and general hilariousness that it’s easy to...
Jan 20th
Jan 18th
“The kind of reading I was doing involved pushing the words around on the page,...”
– Gary Lutz, Stories in the Worst Way
Jan 17th
“In those days, the internet was in black and white. It was only on for three...”
– Old man Hugh, The Armando Iannucci Shows
Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
“That skating scene [in Somewhere] is about a lot of things. It’s about the...”
– Matt Zoller Seitz
Jan 10th
“Sofia Coppola is more of a natural-born filmmaker than her Dad. Francis Coppola...”
– Steven Boone. [After seeing Somewhere, I think I kind of agree with this.]
Jan 10th
“If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we...”
– Patton Oswalt, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
Jan 9th
“Traveling from the far future, Joseph Cole (Klaus Kinski) wants to change the...”
– Netflix plot description for the 1987 TV-movie Timestalkers. Which exists. And is available to Watch Instantly.
Jan 8th
WatchWatch
The great opening of Joseph Losey’s These Are the Damned (1963), which in no way prepares you for the movie you’re about to watch, but does stand on its own as a clever proto–music video, set to an earworm called “Black Leather Rock.”
Jan 6th
“Some of my characters are, no doubt, pretty beastly, but I really don’t...”
– Nabokov
Jan 6th
“When Peter Jackson’s massive Lord of the Rings trilogy came to theaters at the...”
– Doc Films blurb on LOTR
Jan 6th
“For a moment I found myself enriched with an indescribable amazement as if...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Jan 5th