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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Three flawed directors who still make me love film

(Note: these directors and movies are not films I qualify as the best of all time. They are films that, at three in the morning, make me joyful that film was invented so that such beauty could come into the world, fallen though it is)

Brad Bird: his visual sensibilities (found in his character and production design), commitment to quality both in technical (the textures, details, and smoothness of his animation), writing (the sheer intelligence and connectedness of his scripts, no matter how zany or improbable his concepts), and powerful characterizations in The Iron Giant, Ratatouille, and above all, The Incredibles.

M. Night Shyamalan: I believe his scriptwriting developed uphill until Signs, then started a rapid downward turn which steepens every movie afterwards (we'll see about Last Airbender). However, in The Village, despite the horrifyingly grating writing and screechingly artificial direction (especially of poor William Hurt, who I hated for years after I saw the film until I finally saw him in things he was natural in, such as Dark City or Jane Eyre), there are two things in this gaspingly flawed movie that yet make me love film: Ivy's character and love for Lucius (due mostly to the incredible Bryce Dallas Howard), and the framing, colors, textures (oh, the textures - I feel the images as much as see them) of the cinematography.

Joe Wright: his direction and conceptions of his characters are profoundly immature; his interviews and personal behavior careening from loutish to priggishly arrogant. His films also are deteriorating (The Soloist and Atonement were interesting, but mostly in their failures, I believe). However, his ability to capture beauty, isolation, clarity, and incredibly powerful extended takes stays with my heart when I think of why I care about the medium so deeply.

Download now or listen on posterous

02 Mr. Huph Will See You Now.wma (1503 KB)

05 Will You Help Me by James Newton Howard
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5. Will You Help Me.mp3 (1460 KB)

Liz On Top Of The World by Pride & Prejudice
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Rage

This.

On repeat.

All. The. Way. Up.

Oh, and apparently reading Georgette Heyer as a guy is gender-bending? It made my professor happy.

Also, not sure if I like Rage or Fury better. Ire is good, but not raw sounding enough. Irate isn't an abstract quality. Iration isn't a word. Wrath. That's a good one.

And the internet hates me. That's fine. I hate it reciprocally.

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Monday, March 22, 2010

Shudder...ugh!

I love rain. Well, not so much while driving or biking, or while trying to get to class, but the smell just before, the wandering about in it (either very nice and moody or cheerful and happy - think of either any rain/cry scene in a movie or "Singing in the Rain" and that's me).

But walking after dark after rain...when the worms are all on the sidewalk, and you think they're sticks but they move...and then the light catches them and they're all slimy.

Just...ugh...

DO NOT WANT!!!!!

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