February 2010
6 posts
DVD Purging (cont...)
Here is the list so far (you can read my thoughts in the entries below:
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz) DISCARD
Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney) DISCARD
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis) DISCARD
The Fountain (d. Darren Aronofsky)
American Splendor (d. Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman)
Your Friends & Neighbors (d. Neil LaBute)
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Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney)
“We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too...
DVD Purging (so far...)
Here is the list so far (you can read my thoughts in the entries below:
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz) DISCARD
Good Night, and Good Luck (d. George Clooney)
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis) DISCARD
The Fountain (d. Darren Aronofsky)
American Splendor (d. Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman)
Your Friends & Neighbors (d. Neil LaBute)
Wonder...
Timecode (d. Mike Figgis)
I skipped ahead in my list, so I could watch a film that I remember being so excited about 10 years ago; I was curious to see if I would still find the film as exciting as I remembered. Timecode is Mike Figgis’ grand experiment in digital filmaking, utilizing 4 hand-held cameras, we are simultaneously shown (via a 4-way split screen) the events taking place one afternoon in and around a LA...
Storytelling (d. Todd Solondz)
“I don’t know about what happened… because once you start writing, it ALL becomes fiction.”
I had forgotten about how interesting this film was. It is a more approachable film, than Happiness (Todd Solondz’s excellent, but very disturbing, previous film), but that is not saying much.
This film is really 2 short films that are explorations of “fiction”...
Some DVD Purging
In anticipation of some reorganizing in the house, I think its time to whittle down my DVD collection. In the past, the idea of getting rid-of some of my DVDs would have been unthinkable, but with Netflix and other means of digital distribution, I feel that I can watch any movie I want to, sometimes within a few minute, and at worst, within a day or two.
I put about 12 discs in the ‘get...