Charles Dickens (circa 1860)
11/11/2019
Two portraits of English novelist Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870), circa 1860.
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Summer of ’42 (1971) – Review by Vincent Canby [The New York Times]
10/11/2019
Robert Mulligan’s Summer of ’42 is a memory movie, written, directed and acted with such uncommon good humor that I don’t think you’ll be put off by its sweet soft-focus, at least until you start analyzing it afterwards.
Apocalypse Now: Misguided Journey to the Heart of Darkness
09/11/2019
However distant it may seem at first glance, Apocalypse Now remains not only deeply indebted to Conrad’s tale but not fully comprehensible without reference to it
Seth Meyers: Lobby Baby (2019) – Full Transcript
08/11/2019
SNL alumnus and subversive master of late-night TV Seth Meyers comes out from behind the desk to share some lighthearted stories from his own life.
The Power of Adaptation in Apocalypse Now
08/11/2019
In The Power of Adaptation in “Apocalypse Now” Marsha Kinder critically compares and contrasts the film and the novel. In this article, Kinder states that “Coppola rarely hesitates to change Conrad’s story-setting, events, characters-whenever the revision is required by the Vietnam context.”
A Clockwork Orange: Viddying Metaphor
07/11/2019
Whatever tempted Kubrick to adapt the novel A Clockwork Orange and deal with its extraordinary difficulties, his methods of rising to their challenges were equally extraordinary in themselves—so much so that he ended up creating a film that is richer than its source in texture and, in its extension and development of certain thematic implications, more resonant as well.
Stanley Kubrick Interview – by Joseph Gelmis
06/11/2019
A director is a kind of idea and taste machine; a movie is a series of creative and technical decisions, and it’s the director’s job to make the right decisions as frequently as possible. Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
Chaplin: History And Mystery
05/11/2019
The Tramp. The Little Fellow. Naturally the obituaries were full of those terms, full of references to the bowler-hatted, cane-swinging, corner-skidding outsider who had become one of the perdurable icons in the collective mind of the world. All true; still it’s not quite enough. Yes, the Tramp is now a deathless image. Yes, he made us laugh and cry and presumably always will.
Barry Lyndon (1975) – Review by Stanley Kauffmann
05/11/2019
Beautiful pictures are not film style. Kubrick’s latter-day work is solipsist and smug, isolated and sterile. For me Barry Lyndon is an anti-film, a gorgeous, stultified bore.
The Homosexual Subtext of Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” (1992)
05/11/2019
Reservoir Dogs is one of many films, past and present, that either flirt with or fully incorporate homosexual innuendo, expanding the vast symbolic field that homosexuality embraces. Its subtextual strategy mirrors the longstanding suppression and willful concealment of homoerotic desire in our society.
Martin Eden: Jack London’s Poem Of The Mind
04/11/2019
by Sam S. Baskett The poem of the mind in the act of finding What will suffice. —“Of Modern Poetry,” Wallace Stevens When Martin Eden
Arsenio Hall: Smart and Classy (2019) – Transcript
30/10/2019
Arsenio Hall performs his first stand-up comedy special, filmed live in San Jose, California in April 2019.
Jerry Seinfeld: Playboy Interview (1993)
27/10/2019
A candid conversation with Jerry Seinfeld, TV’s top-rated comic, about the important things: sneakers, masturbation, dating teenagers and making a hit show about nothing
New Rule: Nowhere Else to Go | Real Time with Bill Maher [Transcript]
27/10/2019
In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher has what he believes is a simple way for Democrats to win back the White House in 2020: presidential candidates have to stop acting weird.
SUGAR: LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER – TRANSCRIPT
26/10/2019
Sugar. It’s in everything! Is it good for us? Well, the sugar industry thinks so.
Anne Rice: Playboy Interview (1993)
26/10/2019
A candid conversation with the author of The Vampire Chronicles about sex and violence, gays and bloodsuckers, and her helpful fans from the S&M scene
Hannah Arendt: Society and Culture
24/10/2019
Hannah Arendt warns that mass culture increasingly utilizes the classics and other genuine works of art, transformed and made digestible, for entertainment. Since the appetites of the entertainment industries are insatiable, they will in time consume the classics, and thereby destroy culture.
New Rule: Prickstarter | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
20/10/2019
In his editorial New Rule, Bill makes Donald Trump an offer he can’t refuse.
The End of History
20/10/2019
by Lynne V. Cheney Imagine an outline for the teaching of American history in which George Washington makes only a fleeting appearance and is never
RAY BRADBURY: FAHRENHEIT 451 – AN INTRODUCTION
19/10/2019
Book burning and repression of thought and ideas are far from the only themes in Fahrenheit 451. The novel comments on many other aspects of modern life that Bradbury deplores, and it is a striking vindication of his vision that many of the aspects of modern life he deplored at that time are even more pronounced today.