I’m digesting the film tonight and later on during a stroll with morpheus. More on the film’s delicious casse toi to our glass bourgoiserie tomorrow, along with a discussion of that most overrated of all narrative and aesthetic tropes – catharsis, and what it really means in the inverse.
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Dennis Hopper (1936-2010)
Posted in Exuberance is Beauty, The Revisionist, Theory and Practice on May 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Dennis Hopper was one of the great special effects in the modern era; our chemical man in the movies. But his loss reminds us that special effects continue to evolve as an honest performer’s most bitter competition – only occasionally inspiring them, and always at a price. And yet, like the best bare-knucklers, Hopper kept [...]
The Art of the Long Take
Posted in Cross Cultural, The Revisionist, Theory and Practice on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What many current Hollywood directors will be watching in hell. It’s subtle, but just as though you’ve held your breath, the tension mounts with every passing second in these heroically long takes. Posted by Jon Owen. Special thanks to the steely eyed insights of Jim Emerson.
En Garde – 50 Literary Harpoons
Posted in The Revisionist on April 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
1. Ernest Hemingway, according to Vladimir Navokov (1972) As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early ‘forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it. Diamonds, emeralds, rubies of wit and wile – all the brighter for their slick and sickly coat of venom. [Missing however, is my favorite, [...]
