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Lost in the Frame: Synecdoche, New York
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Lost in the Frame. K Silem Mohammad's Film Notes. Synecdoche, New York. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Samantha Morton in Synecdoche, New York. Dir Charlie Kaufman, 2008). The heading for one of the message board threads at the IMDb page for Synecdoche, New York. Reads, "Maybe this makes more sense to atheists.". Makes sense to atheists. That's the way we like it. I am left deeply unsatisfied, nevertheless, by the incoherence of the frivolous Schenectady/synecdoche. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 160; H...
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Underground Medicine: September 2009
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Readings - Mappings - Remedies - Obsessions. Monday, September 28, 2009. Tonight was the first night when it all went dark sooner than I expected. Autumnal" is the word I would use for an indistinct excitement related to in-between states. That's how today felt. It also felt like the end of something. Not sure what. I walked far after work just to get the fumes of the weekend out of my system. I'm reading Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Which, so far, is an amazingly sustained intellectual detective no...
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Lost in the Frame: Changeling
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Lost in the Frame. K Silem Mohammad's Film Notes. Angelina Jolie in Changeling. Dir Clint Eastwood, 2008). I usually like Clint Eastwood movies best when he's in them- his own presence serves to distract him from his over-inclination towards redemptive aureate radiances and/or somber grey existentialities. Not completely, but just enough to make those excesses seem like evocative backdrops rather than strained auteurial strivings. In Changeling. December 24, 2008 at 4:56 AM. December 24, 2008 at 8:09 PM.
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Lost in the Frame: Forty Guns
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Lost in the Frame. K Silem Mohammad's Film Notes. Barbara Stanwyck in Forty Guns. Dir Samuel Fuller, 1957). Gene Barry, Robert Dix, and Barry Sullivan. Barbara Stanwyck's role in Forty Guns. Is in some ways similar to the part she played a few years earlier in Anthony Mann's The Furies. For the distinction of ultimate western dragon lady. I want to make some smart-ass comment like "When didn't. November 28, 2008 at 7:54 AM. November 28, 2008 at 11:46 AM. December 2, 2008 at 4:17 AM. Squirrels in My Attic.
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Lost in the Frame: Smiley Face
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Lost in the Frame. K Silem Mohammad's Film Notes. Anna Faris in Smiley Face. Dir Gregg Araki, 2007). Thanks to Mike Hauser for recommending this! The little I remember of Gregg Araki's doom-and-gloom extrusions of decadent Gen-X trauma from the 90's has long since settled into a puddle of muted indie hysteria, but last year's Smiley Face. Seriousness, that if this turns out to be her best performance ever, it will be enough. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My poetry and poetics blog. Noir of the Week.
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Lost in the Frame: Top Ten Films of 2008
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Lost in the Frame. K Silem Mohammad's Film Notes. Top Ten Films of 2008. This year's list took some padding and slippery conceptualization before it would satisfy me. If it had been a list of just comedies, it would have been easy to complete: many of the top ten are comedies, and I would have felt OK about including Forgetting Sarah Marshall. And maybe even Tropic Thunder. And the fatally flawed Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Not What Happens in Vegas. 10 Hellboy II: The Golden Army. 8 Synecdoche, New York.
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Lost in the Frame: W.
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Lost in the Frame. K Silem Mohammad's Film Notes. Josh Brolin in W. Dir Oliver Stone, 2008). Any good. Although I did laugh in the scene where the bespectacled young waiter comes up behind him in the restaurant to tell him he has a phone call, and he looks at him, jumps a little in his seat, and says "whoa, Buddy Holly! Esp with the fish eyed closeups of faces, the camera literally looking through his eyes (at the ball, at jesus, at the oil rig, etc. etc.)? October 20, 2008 at 6:34 AM. Mystery Man on Film.
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Lost in the Frame: The Wrestler
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Lost in the Frame. K Silem Mohammad's Film Notes. Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler. Dir Darren Aronofsky, 2008). Will plunge Cassavetes-like into the quotidian depths of its subject matter's spandexy squalor. But Darren Aronofsky is no Cassavetes, and after the insanely gnarly barbed wire and staple gun scene, which is almost worthy of Gummo. Couldn't it be argued that rote qualities of the 2nd act of The Wrestler are there to make the movie's resolution more tragic? February 8, 2009 at 11:21 AM. An older c...
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Lost in the Frame: Avida
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Lost in the Frame. K Silem Mohammad's Film Notes. Anselme as le chanteur de faïence. Dir Gustave de Kervern and Benoît Delépine, 2006). Claude Chabrol as le zoophile débonnaire. At eighty-three minutes, Avida. Still feels long. There are a few inspired moments, notably a brief appearance by Claude Chabrol as an aged connoisseur of roebuck flesh, the performance by one Anselme of a grating yet somehow eerie and compelling synth ballad about faience dinnerware ("nice and stored away"! Whose imagery is used...
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Underground Medicine: March 2010
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Readings - Mappings - Remedies - Obsessions. Monday, March 15, 2010. This year I did not dress up in a wedding dress and go barhopping. I took photos, trying to figure out how to illustrate certain novel segments, i.e. the sinister "Monica Barrett" character. . . From the top of Bernal Hill today and yesterday, the city was all polished quartz and shining corridors. The breezes tasted good. I didn't have my camera. I've been reading dark and uncanny authors again, like Thomas Ligotti. Got the attention o...
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