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Category Archives: Film
RIP: Robert Osborne
Film historian and Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne has passed at the age of 84. TCM is one of the best channels to just sit in front of for hours on end. Over the years, the brief prologues and … Continue reading
Richard Burton Discusses the Bottle
I’ve long been a great admirer of the late Richard Burton, a man whose screen presence and baritone voice was unmatched. If you haven’t seen the following films, you must watch: Look Back in Anger (1959) Becket (1964) The Night … Continue reading
The Ascent of Alfred
I just discovered this very trippy video animation by the talented NRx-er Emily Youcis, a video that celebrates the 4chan-fueled red-pilling of Alfred the Dog, his subsequent abandonment of his vegetative ways, and his eventual political ascent. Place LSD, Dali, … Continue reading
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RIP: Seijun Suzuki
They’re dropping like flies. In just the last few days, we’ve lost jazz guitar legend Larry Coryell, mathematician/economist Kenneth Arrow (whose “Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem” addresses issues of collective decision-making), and now the iconoclastic, Japansese film director Seijun Suzuki has died … Continue reading
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RIP: John Hurt
The acting legend John Hurt has died at the age of 77. His career highlights include playing John Merrick in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man (1980), as well as memorable roles in the films Midnight Express (1978), Alien (1979), and … Continue reading
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Oasis – Supersonic (2016)
If you have Amazon Prime, the new documentary on Oasis is available for viewing. It’s well done (though you might need to turn on subtitle captioning to understand some of their cockney). The film depicts their meteoric rise in just … Continue reading
The Frankfurt School Goes to the Movies
Over at The Right Stuff, there’s a good post on “The Frankfurt School Goes to the Movies”: The Frankfurt School was a Jewish intellectual movement beginning in Weimar Germany, which rejected Marxist class warfare (Klassenkampf) for cultural warfare (Kulturkampf). Disappointed … Continue reading
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Frank’s Last Walk
With news that Nic Pizzolatto’s HBO deal might someday entail a Season 03 of True Detective, I began ruminating on the show. S01 was nigh short of a masterpiece, the season’s ending being the largest of its very few weak … Continue reading
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Mel Gibson & The Stolen Copy of The Passion
Glenn ‘The Fat Hippie’ Beck recently spoke with Mel Gibson privately, in an off the record conversation… which Beck of course then publicized (before trying to take his video down.) From The Forward: A post on Beck’s website, which has … Continue reading
Supersonic (2016)
I look forward to this documentary: