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Quentin Tarantino makes movies that are endlessly analyzed, eternally poked, and perennially prodded. Is he a misogynist? Is the violence cathartic, appropriate, or exploitative? Are his copious, reverent references to samurai, spaghetti westerns and grind-house films profound or childish expressions of his love for the cinema? I don’t know the answer to any of these questions, [...] No, this isn’t a review of Inglourious Basterds, though admittedly, the title fits. Rather, this is a piece bemoaning the death of the romantic comedy as we know it. Now, I know some of you — especially you manly, Tarantino-loving, men’s men — would say “good riddance.” But not me. Not this manly, Tarantino . [...] I’ve seen two new releases in the theater the past week, which is almost as many as I saw the entire Summer. I would say that this summer was pretty horrible at the movie-plex (which is all we got here in Tuscaloosa), but every summer is really bad, and I’m pretty sure I said the [...] With Neill Blomkamp’s District 9, producer Peter Jackson almost makes up for King Kong. He originally hired Neill Blomkamp to direct a feature-length version of Halo; when the deal fell through, he encouraged the South African to direct another feature right away. Most importantly, he provided him with the means to do so. Blomkamp chose [...] Hey everybody: I was out of town this weekend, and more or less away from the internet. But there’s a piece of mine on Almodóvar’s baroque Bad Education over at Ibe Tolis’ “Counting down the Noughties” project. This is a project that keeps getting better and better as the decade in question nears it’s end. [...] Julie Powell Seems like when bloggers are in a slump, they end up writing about blogging. Well, so be it. This is a post about blogging. It has burbled up from my recent viewing of Julie & Julia, which I wrote about here, for the simple reason that the film is about — [...] Variety reports that Rob Marshall has been signed to direct a remake of Ingmar Bergman’s iconic Hour of the Wolf. Called simply Wolf!, it will star Keanu Reeves and Rachel McAdams. In the screenplay, by veteran scribe Joe Esterhaus, Reeves plays research chemist Rick Borg, whose studies of psychotropic drugs leads to harrowing hallucinations for [...] I almost didn’t go to see this flick. A guy I know told me the reviews were “just terrible,” that they said it didn’t meld the two story-lines together well, and etc., so I thought “hmmm … maybe we’d better skip this one.” In fact, though <insert standard disclaimer about how I don’t trust RottenTomatoes.com [...] I have a little game I play with Ingmar Bergman films. You know, to provide a break from the absolutely grim subject matter, a distraction so I don’t kill myself when watching. The idea is to read the various blurbs or synopses of the film to see which ones most capture the essence of the [...] |
  
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There’s Editing and Then There’s Editing
In a past life, I was an editor for a scientific journal based in Amsterdam. And though most everyone wrote on a word processor, it was in the days before electronic markup, so you’d give a paper back to an author all covered in editing marks, those curious little squiggles that indicated deletions, editions, and [...]