Dear Makers of RatatouilleThis is what your film has taught me ( Read more... )

What is your favorite play-to-film adaptation?

I personally love Julie Taymor's Titus but I think it might be a little intense for my students.
 

Now this is my kind of pornography (just check out the synchronized, intense female ejaculation starting at about 8:10). And contrary to what I've just said, this video IS technically work-safe.

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Plus homegirl's got a hot voice.
 

Just finished watching Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. First of his I've seen, I think. It is some postcolonial genius, I tell you what. Not only was it written superbly but the camera always hovers and then freezes in this photographic frame revealing a moment, giving you a chance to soak it in entirely. No sound but room tone, no action but ( Read more... )

Although much has been written and produced with regard to the male trying to return to the wild (Deliverance, Into the Wild, Rousseau, Thoreau, etc.), the relationship between civilized woman and nature has been almost nonexistent in the arts and academia. Perhaps The New World, as a film, comes closest to revealing a concept of feminine ( Read more... )

I went to an opening last night at + (plus gallery). Saw a fascinating film piece by Mike Olenik: the original and new versions of Psycho played over one another, superimposed, in their entirety. Just wonderful. They fall in and out of synchronization, the ghosts of the characters, of the films, and of the actors walk in and out, everything is this ( Read more... )

I just finished watching Winged Migration. You should know that I adore long documentaries and grew up on Nova so the genre in itself is more than fine with me ( Read more... )

I've always liked Marilyn Monroe. She has this very two-fold nature whereby she is at once very sexual and seductive while being very subversively bright and cunning. Most people look at me strangely when I say that.

Upon a mention by foucaultonacid I netflixed The Misfits and I'll tell you, it blew me away. It was written by Arthur Miller and I don't know ( Read more... )

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"I went to college and all I ever got out of it was dissipation. A lot of supercilious professors, slob professors, shootin' off their mouth about somethin, trying to teach me about somethin' they already failed at themselves."

Aw crap. That's so true.

We only teach what we haven't been able to accomplish yet ourselves.

Thanks, Cassavetes.