I picked up a copy of The International this past week in a set of inexpensive used DVDs I spotted in an eBay auction. It's a more intelligent action/thriller that I had quite enjoyed when I rented it earlier this year. The film stars Clive Owen, who I've always enjoyed as a smart leading man, and who I am now (dorkishly) slightly more fond of ( Read more... )

Life goes on. So many things here and there that I meant to journal over the last month and didn't get to. I seem to be at one of my "low journal-energy" ebbs at the moment, but I have too well learned my lesson that the unjournaled life is the unremembered life, at least for me. So, I guess it's going to be a few compensatory "bullet point" ( Read more... )

I was writing to Professor Fahey yesterday about how light or free I've felt since turning in my dissertation on Tuesday. I've had this one project hanging over me for the two years it took to write this book: it has always just been something there to have to get back to, even when I was doing something else; or something I ought to be doing, ( Read more... )

Some interesting criticism articles I found online regarding Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.

Little space in between: preliminary notes on Before Sunrise
Love’s Moment: Before Sunrise and Before Sunset

Little space in between: preliminary notes on Before SunriseAuthor: Robin Wood ( Read more... )

Up late working, 'cause I fell into a nap right after dinner, probably because of the long day I pulled yesterday doing some emergency baby-sitting for Dan and Amy, and then staying for dinner, a supply run for the sick Professor Barnes, and then a movie night.

On that last, I talked them into watching the enchanting 2006 Irish film Once. Diane ( Read more... )

I agree that the fundamental idea of a series of vignettes with these characters across a number of decades is in itself a provocative artistic idea and challenge. There will always be stories that follow characters across decades. To see such a series of stories made across decades, however, rather than actors aged through makeup - that's an ( Read more... )

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I had a quietly fabulous time with Jules Monday night. The scheduled Event of the evening was to watch Before Sunset together. I had bought that DVD and my copy of Before Sunrise with her back in December of 2006, and sweat through the break in not watching them on my own, to save the experience for her. I had seen them a few years earlier, and ( Read more... )

I was soooo looking forward to watching these two Richard Linklater movies with Jules - Before Sunrise and Before Sunset - and seeing what she thought of them, after discovering the other week when I picked them up at Half Price Books that she'd never seen them before. I felt that I'd very nobly put up with the strain and sacrifice of not taking ( Read more... )

Two by Robert Zemeckis: Back to the Future (1985) and Cast Away (2000)--when both come on the tube together over the weekend, I am struck by how both films are about how we lose our lives.

Back to the Future, of course, is the fantasy: in it, Marty destroys the circumstances of his own parents' meeting, and in restoring that, actually comes out ( Read more... )