October 2011
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The middle of the film is an itchy and tremulous account of a wedding party at a Swedish country house, in which the bride, Justine (Kirsten Dunst), keeps wandering off to take a bath or to have sex on the golf course with someone other than the groom, while maintaining frayed relations with her foul-tempered mother (Charlotte Rampling), her feckless father (John Hurt), and her anxiety-ridden...
Woody Allen on the Shakespeare Authorship...
The essay “But Soft… Real Soft,” as it appears in Without Feathers:
Ask the average man who wrote the plays entitled Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and Othello, and in most cases he’ll snap confidently back with, “The Immortal Bard of Stratford on Avon.” Ask him about the authorship of the Shakespearean sonnets and see if you don’t get the same illogical reply. Now put these...
A man lies dead, from cause or causes unknown, in the bath while David Bowie sings “Heroes/Helden” on the radio. The dead man’s brother, Robert, drives from another city: a journey, filmed in black and white, through an English landscape. “Uranium” from Kraftwerk plays in an empty car. “Sweet Gene Vincent” by Ian Dury comes through cheap loudspeakers in a biscuit factory. Driving out of the...
gchat invaders
jimmychenchen:
Mixtape of the Lost Decade →
zetsubouwill:
one of the more entertaining accounts of saudade I’ve read in a while
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