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The View From Mrs Thompson's →
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David Foster Wallace on 9/11
The Yellow Pages have nothing under Flag. There’s actual interior tension: Nobody walks by or stops their car and says, “Hey, your house doesn’t have a flag,” but it gets easier and easier to imagine people thinking it. None of the grocery stores in town turn out to stock any flags. The novelty shop downtown has nothing but Halloween stuff. Only a few...
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August 2011
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WatchFrance Goes Pop!
Fridays in August, The Cinefamily @ The Silent Movie Theatre
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a country outside of time →
37 photos inside North Korea
July 2011
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May 2011
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The End Is Not Death - note on Malick's _Tree of...
I notice too many critics (mis)reading the end of _Tree of Life_ as an image of the afterlife. E.g., Andrew O’Hehir laments “To my taste the visual and auditory experience of The Tree of Life is frequently spectacular, but also nearly drowns the film’s Texas family story in a rising tide of mystical mumbo-jumbo, culminating in a vision of the afterlife that seems sentimental and...
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April 2011
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the good ones never go out of your heart →
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March 2011
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Watch“FEMA has begun distributing emergency DVDs of the existential Coen brothers’ film, _No Country for Old Men_.”