May 2013
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RWK on Soderbergh for TR:
“After all, if you’re lucky enough to make a movie - of any size, length, format, etc - it’s your duty to make it work, to make it beautiful, to remind your audience that they are not alone.”
The whole piece, HERE.
April 2013
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What Diane Keaton wore to meet her ex, as told by...
“The next day, before returning to New York, I caught up with family at the hotel for lunch. When Beverly Hills people say, “the hotel,” they mean only the Beverly Hills Hotel. It is the hub of activity, where you buy the New York Times, get your shoes shined, have breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and run into a wide assortment of people. At the entrance to the Polo Lounge, talking...
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LILY dir. Matt Creed
The film is also Creed’s thoughtful ode to New York. His is an ochre-hued city that sounds just as chaotic as it sounds quiet. A rambling man talking to himself on the street or the hum of an approaching train whooshing by—sometimes dulling, sometimes startling—is the same New York in which an apartment in the afternoon can seem near-holy, as if invented for friends to hide in without...
Louise
Years ago, before I knew her, my friend Kate smuggled a hedgehog from Korea back to New York. She named it Louise. When Kate tells the story of how she did it, how she hid Louise and got her through customs, Kate cups her hands and grins a little. Always, it seems, the return of getting away with something or being resourceful, or in this case both, increases with time. It’s an inevitability....
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hannahmight:
“The way we have felt cannot be divided from what we think, by which I mean I am committed to admitting the ways I have felt into the ways I must think. It has to be this way right now.” - Ariana Reines on Francesa Woodman.
Revisiting a conversation that was pretty...
“When I see a movie that’s really interesting that I really like, I don’t even feel like there’s something before and usually after. There are people who naturally have trouble in life, and I find that to be okay. Wondering if Eddie’s going to be okay, that’s the question of the movie. The answer is making the movie.”
-Dustin Guy Defa
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Ebert on Manny Farber's death: a nice image to...
“At Venice, we spent a lot of time with John Gillet of London’s National Film Theater, sitting in beach cafes talking about nothing I can now remember, other than Bobby Fischer and the world chess championship then being played. We had a little portable set and once or twice played through the games from the daily paper.”
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READ Zach Baron's profile of Shane Carruth
“The point being, he says, “I want to be in touch with that.” He’s been listening to the new Justin Timberlake record a lot — “like, nonstop.” He says nonstop a couple more times, because we’re both wasted at this point, and we both love Justin Timberlake, or at least right now we do. He had a dinner party recently, with Bellflower director Evan Glodell...
March 2013
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PINES/CIANFRANCE/RUNNING ON EMPTY/LUMET
“In his 1988 review of Sidney Lumet’s Running on Empty—a film about a family on the lam whose teenaged son (played by River Phoenix) must break away and choose his own path—Roger Ebert writes, “But it’s a funny thing about the past. The more you run from it, the more it’s in your thoughts.” Lumet characterizes that sentiment further in his book Making Movies,...
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NUKED: SNP on Naked, Nude, & bad lighting...
“Now, I mostly hate to be told “you’re beautiful” when it happens at my most vulnerable, stripped-down, naked. When Drake’s all about “sweatpants, hair back, chillin’ with no makeup on,” I do take that wrong, in the same way I always felt disserviced by Jane Pratt’s famous“makeunders,” the way they privileged “natural beauty,” without ever acknowledging that “natural...
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AmericanDreamz
“While wildly divergent from Terrence Malick’s Badlands, there are moments in Spring Breakers that cite the 1973 masterpiece, shortening the obvious gap between Korine’s previous work and his current feature. Sure, Spring Breakers is the director’s most commercial film yet, but it is also entirely kindred with Korine’s penchant for eulogizing what the world would rather not see. In Malick’s...
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Lucy, forever.
rightnow-forever:
I used to be known for the expedience with which I could flee anything, but sometime lately I have come to fear the final paragraphs of chapters, closings of books, ends of ends. New letters to C. at TR today.
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J.D. Salinger & J.Malcolm & J.Didion
“Didion dismissed Franny and Zooeyas “finally spurious, and what makes it spurious is Salinger’s tendency to flatter the essential triviality within each of his readers, his predilection for giving instructions for living. What gives the book its extremely potent appeal is precisely that it is self-help copy: it emerges finally asPositive Thinking for the upper middle classes, as Double Your...
February 2013
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