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Once = “Make Art!”

Monday, February 25, 2008

Oh, what a beautiful movie. It’s (according to my count) the second (the first being “Lost in Translation”) in a line of what seems to be a trend of films that deal honestly and intelligently with a really difficult concept: two people, both committed to other people (either by law or in their hearts), find [...]

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juno = acting saves well-paced but overly stylized and overwrought script

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Yeah, who’s the bitch now, Diablo!? No, seriously, she’s definitely got something unique going on, and I think her next script will tell. Will she go the way of Apatow, and perfect that “edgy, pop-culture referency yet grounded and realistic comedic tone”, or will she go the way of Tarantino, and wallow in that “extended [...]

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I am cultured, do you hear me? Cultured!

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Yes. Yosef and I have been watching old foreign films, like “Breathless” and “Wild Strawberries”. In fact, “Wild Strawberries” was my first Bergman film ever, I think. And unlike when I saw “La Strada” and thought to myself “Uh, was I supposed to like that or risk being thought uncivilized?” (a question my college boyfriend [...]

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Tout Va Bien = thank god for the skip feature on dvds…

Saturday, September 29, 2007

…that way, Yosef and I could check at 10 minute intervals to see if there was ever going to be a plot. The answer… after this ten minute rant about the capitalist oligarchy. And this one. And this one. Oh look, a picture of a woman holding a penis. Oh, now it’s another ten minute [...]

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the long goodbye= oh, THAT’S why Robert Altman is considered a genius…

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

…Cause, honestly, I liked “Ready to Wear” and all, but I wasn’t really ever quite, let’s say, moved by any of the films he made in my R-rated movie-viewing lifetime. But this, this was…crazy. He takes a straight noir detective novel and adapts it into a dark tinsel-town farce. I don’t even know if that’s [...]

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the big easy= i’ll have a muffalata w/ dennis quaid filling

Monday, July 30, 2007

Wow. This movie did for Dennis Quaid in my mind what the combination of “Chicago” did for Richard Gere, and “Evita” did for Antonio Banderas. I’m sure that makes perfect sense. Of course you understand that I mean that, like seeing Richard Gere in “Chicago”, watching Quaid in “The Big Easy” actually made me respect [...]

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tiny classified ads…

Thursday, July 26, 2007

This book stinks of the worst kind of financial self-help dung. I refuse to read it, based on the following assumptions that it makes: * Anyone can get rich if they follow it. * Work sucks and is only a means to an end (read: leisure, which in Ferriss’s case, involves riding motorcycles and dancing [...]

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sex, lies, and videotape

Monday, July 23, 2007

This is what I have learned about James Spader* so far this summer: 1. He can cure any woman of any type of sexual dysfunction. 2. He looks incredibly sexy when he lets a woman come up behind him and run her fingers through his beautiful blond hair while he succumbs to the intense, erotic [...]

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why smart women make perfectly normal money decisions

Thursday, July 19, 2007

That’s going to be the follow-up title to this little gem that is currently in my bathroom. It will include such case studies as: 1. You get a shirt from anthropologie as a birthday gift. It is too big, so you go to return it. You only have a $50 credit, but when you get [...]

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old news: colbert on o’reilly

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

I know this is old, but I happened to stumble across it just now (I had seen O’Reilly on Colbert when it aired), and I was absolutely blown away by the morbidity of the lack of studio audience. That said, listen for the uncontrolled laughter that intermittently emanates from, who, the interns? The key grip? [...]

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