The Mad Men Account by Daniel Mendelsohn (NYRB) – With these standouts, Mad Men shares virtually no significant qualities except its design. The writing is extremely weak, the plotting haphazard and often preposterous, the characterizations shallow and sometimes incoherent; its attitude toward the past is glib and its self-positioning in the present is unattractively smug; …
Jatka lukemista ”Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 1.02.2011 – 4.02.2011”
Joan Didion on Woody Allen in 1979 (NYRB) – James Schamus of Focus Features, The Professor of Small Movies (NYT Magazine) – Nicolas Cage Losing His Shit (YT) – Ihan vasta pari tuntia sitten selitin, että tällainen pitäisi tehdä. Kiitos, internet! (via @marklisanti)
Films are vulgar. And this vulgarity, I love it: An Interview with Arnaud Desplechin (Senses of Cinema) – Jack Cardiffs Magic Life: Part One – The static art of architecture and the kinetic art of motion pictures might seem antithetical mediums, but films can be enormously helpful in explaining buildings (NYRB) – Veijarit-traileri – hmm …
Jatka lukemista ”Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 12.10.2010 – 17.10.2010”
Lyhytelokuva Stasis – via io9 In the Life of The Wire (The New York Review of Books) – Gaspar Noé: "The whole thing is about getting into holes. Putting the camera into any hole." –
Charm City, USA – The New York Review of Books on Treme – The David Simon of The Wire was utterly familiar with and unsentimental about his urban subject—he evidently didn’t feel he had to be “for” Baltimore—but the David Simon of Treme is in love with New Orleans and at pains to show it. …
Jatka lukemista ”Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 11.09.2010 – 13.09.2010”
