Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'film'
Conservative New York Times Columnist David Brooks Nails What’s Wrong With Slightly Misinterprets James Cameron’s Avatar
New York Times Columnist David Brooks Nails What’s Wrong With Slightly Misinterprets James Cameron’s Avatar ENTRYURL: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/opinion/08brooks.html viaName: Pam viaURL: http://www.facebook.com/pamela.snyder TIME: 09:56:26 //--> Neytiri and Jake Sully (source) On Saturday night (9 January 2010), I posted and retracted a...
“The San Francisco Roach is Generally German or Oriental in Derivation”
Pacific Heights»Pacific Heights. Dir. John Schlesinger. 1990.« is a vastly underrated psychological thriller. Part of the problem likely is the wooden acting by Matthew Modine and the unconvincing ditzy by Melanie Griffith, though Michael Keaton plays creep quite well.1...
Reassessing The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski ENTRYURL: http://www.metafilter.com/87913/The-Year-in-Dude-Studies#2883496 viaName: viaURL: TIME: 23:06:58 //--> Even having seen the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski three or four times, I really did not like the film too much. I was annoyed by Lebowski’s unconsidered and Hollywoodified...
In the Future Everyone Will Have Their 12 Seconds of Fame
Prelim Watching a video debate about whether President Obama should shame unprincipled detractors by identifying them, I came across a video that asks “Is Lady Gaga Sexy Or Just Crazy?” The moment I saw this picture Lady GaGa in...
Transformers 2, or How to Piss Off Even Midnight Moviegoers
I don’t walk out on films as a matter of principle, but this film took awful to levels I’d never seen before. a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves...
I Walked With a White Woman
The motive force of vodou is asserted by Paul and Wesley's mother, Mrs. Rand (Edith Barrett), who confesses to asking a houngan to zombify Jessica as revenge for being unfaithful to her son. Though Dr. Maxwell (James Bell) dismisses Mrs....
Project R
This entry contains spoilers.One of the problems I'm addressing in Zombie Nation is the way in which North American racial history is cinematically encoded into George Romero's Living Dead Series. There is little dispute that classic zombie cinema (prior to...
The Twilight of Capitalism
Introduction: Zombie NationIn the last decade, zombies have taken a place of cultural prominence that in some ways is incongruous with their low culture origins. Among other things, this essay accounts for this increase in scholarly interest by examining the...
Help Me. I’m Evil.1
Jean Rollin. La Morte Vivante. (1982): 01:05:38 - 01:05:46 Clicking downloads a 1.8 MB file. Please be patient while the file loads Ctrl/Right-click here to “Save File As …” The above clip comes from a French film wherein the...
Spider-Face
--> This morning between midnight and 02:00 Eastern, I saw Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3. 1 The film weaves together storylines from the Spider-Man comic book and graphic novel sagas (both largely unfamiliar to me).2 One story arc in the Spider-Man...
Double Stitch
For the past two weeks, I’ve wanted to follow up on my post regarding the ending of Spamland #1 (the only one I’ve as yet seen.) My argument was to have identified the retroactive constitution of subjectivity through the chain...
Black Modernism isn't always only about “being black”
Last night, George, Barrett (Barry) Watten, Carla Harryman, and I drove to Columbus to see Bryan Barber’s Idlewild (2006). It may have been the first time I saw a movie about black people that was not about being black....
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