Category: film
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Why the Movie is Always Worse than the Book
There seems to have arisen a sort of arrogance in our culture that if you’ve seen the movie, you’ve seen it all — that the movie is seldom truly worse than the book. But seeing is not understanding, not knowing, not believing – at least not the sort of seeing we normally mean. TV and Movies…
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Finishing Strong Stories in Avengers Endgame
Finishing strong stories came up over and again in Avengers Endgame. It makes sense considering the question at hand: how do superheroes retire? Morally, it seems, if they plan to end well. For power, money, pleasure, and honor remain insufficient — even now with great power, great money, great pleasure, great honor comes still greater…
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Generational Culture — films, novels, and the rest
My friend Chad wrote a post about generational culture in hopes to pick a film for every generation. As we texted back and forth with our friend Doug, we realized that a single film might not define a generation so much as a bank of films or even a bank of cultural touchstones. So after…
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तरंग Tarang
Tarang तरंग is a short movie about an Indian poor kid who wants to learn English which has became a statement for standard and class. Movie is entirely made of hand made illustration (ball point pen on paper). ARTIST STATEMENT on तरंग I always have a desire to share my thoughts and contemplation with others.…
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Schadenfyre Festival
The promotional video of Fyre Festival opens with an overhead shot of a small island surrounded by the blueish swirls of the Caribbean. A voiceover drones, “The actual experience exceeds all expectations.” Come this way, honored Odysseus, great glory of the Achaians, and stay your ship, so that you can listen here to our singing;…
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Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch is as Bad as Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone Reboot Will Be
The highly anticipated, recently released full-length interactive film from the makers of the provocative and disturbing British sci-fi television series Black Mirror, Bandersnatch, is a failure in many ways. It’s a confusingly, convolutedly, frustratingly, and unnecessarily complicated plot wrapped up in an innovative but disappointing format, where viewers have to make random and only occasionally…
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13 Reasons Why Not to Watch 13 Reasons Why
One of my students from the Creative Arts Academy, Abigail E. Riebel, wrote this guest post today on 13 Reasons Why. Whether I agree with all of her points is irrelevent: what’s far more interesting is that a highschooler wrote such a reflective piece about such an influential show. That’s what this site’s all about.…
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An Evening with Marilynne Robinson
Tara and I had the distinct pleasure of attending the evening with Marilynne Robinson hosted by CFW in Manhattan, similar to the one with Christian Wiman the night of the JFK protests. The highlight of the evening, for me at least, came when M ( I can see her as the mother of James Bond,…
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Mp3 Experiment 15 in Brooklyn Bridge Park by Improv Everywhere
Tara and I participated in this years mp3 experiment by improv everywhere. It involved a TON of people, a lot of noise and awkwardness, and a lot of laughs. I’ll give a free copy of OF GODS AND GLOBES to anyone that can find us in the video:
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Avengers Infinity War Analysis : Being is its Own Reward [SPOILERS]
After watching the Avengers film, I wanted to do a quick Avengers Infinity War analysis of the fanboy prediction sort rather than the critical kind that I did with something like the Dark Knight. I’ll build on some assumptions made in the Guardian analysis, the Buzzfeed interview with the screenwriters, the piece from The Wrap,…
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Sunset Park Fire NYC
Pray for my neighbors in the Sunset Park fire if you would. It was a single apartment fire above one of my favorite juice places and a lot of good people live on that block. Unsure how many alarms sounded, but roughly nine trucks showed up so right now it seems like the Sunset Park…
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Olympics Need an Aesthetic Branch — #OlympianAesthete
In preparation for our first two book readings for our Western Canonball book club here in Brooklyn (click here to unlock the whole booklist and join the book clumb), I came across an interesting passage in Hesiod’s WORKS AND DAYS where he gives a sort of meta reference to his THEOGONY, the first book in…