For the past 13+ months we have held a saturday movie night at the condo. With the move to Young Harris, this will be ending. For posterity, here’s the film list.
——-
28 June 2008 – Hitchcock’s “The Birds”
5 July – The Coen Brothers’ “Fargo”
12 July – “Singin’ in the Rain”
19 July – Simon Pegg [...]
Archive for the ‘Cinema and Film’ Category
Movie Night
Posted in Cinema and Film on August 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Regarding “Up”
Posted in Cinema and Film on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not really in the mood for a full blown review of this film, but I did want to share some thoughts after a couple days of percolating.
To cut right to the chase, this film is being grotesquely over-reviewed; as far as quality and enjoyment are concerned, I’m pretty confident that this belongs in the bottom [...]
“Tropic Thunder”
Posted in Cinema and Film on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just saw this film last night with Jenn.
Let’s not beat around the bush: this is Ben Stiller attempting to appropriate the comedic style of the Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright comedies. It is an attempt to both critique and praise a particular genre within the same film – in this case, the war epic. As such, it [...]
Star Trek: Phase II / New Voyages
Posted in Cinema and Film, television on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, I was puttering around the internet today (can one ‘putter around’ the internet?) and wound up looking over the Hugo award nominees for this year…inspired by the Dr. Who / Steven Moffat news.
Imagine my surprise when a non-profit fan vid turned up as a nominee in the “Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form” category [...]
Chapter 7 – Mythic Identity in Doctor Who
Posted in Cinema and Film, Doctor Who, Scholarship, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, television on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First things first – we’ve had a visit to this often not particularly humble blog from the editor and author of chapter one of this very book. Check the comments section to my overview of that chapter for his defense / counter-summary of that chapter. Some interesting things have come up, and I’ve brought up [...]
A defense of the Doctor Who telefilm
Posted in Cinema and Film, Doctor Who, Scholarship, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, television on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Having had a few days to ruminate on Chapter 1 of the book of essays on Doctor Who, and having ‘watched’ the telefilm again (by running it as background noise one day), I’m beginning to develop a counter argument that I’d like to float.
All y’all Doctor Who fans might have some input on this, unlike [...]
Chapter 6 – On how much smarter the author is than anyone else
Posted in Cinema and Film, Doctor Who, Scholarship, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, television on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to try, really try, to not rant about this article; however, be aware that I am at this moment providing fair warning that I might not be able to contain myself when discussing this reprehensible and arrogant piece of shit.
The chapter, such as it is, can basically be separated into three sections, two [...]
Chapter 5 – Narrative Form and Point-of-View
Posted in Cinema and Film, Doctor Who, Scholarship, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, television on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If ever one needed an example of a scholarly train-wreck, this is it. I have never in my life encountered an ‘argument’ where almost all of the interesting analyses are moved to the footnotes and the body of the text consists of nothing but very loosely related asides.
Honestly, his ‘argument’ goes from ‘Dr. Who was [...]
“Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day”
Posted in Cinema and Film on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is such an interesting little film, I’ll not spoil it with too much talking. I’d just like to point out some of the thought provoking elements of the film.
‘Reality’ of the plot vs. interpretive openings – Several points of entry into the film as metaphor seem to exist regardless of the plot. The purely social (employer/employee, [...]
Chapters 3 and 4 – History, Pseudo-History, and Genre
Posted in Cinema and Film, Doctor Who, Scholarship, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, television on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to combine these two chapters into a single post, as the latter is a partial elaboration and a partial critique of the former.
Chapter three, the first truly excellent chapter in the book, is a practically indisputable (in my opinion) theoretical analysis of the ways in which ‘history’ has been used as a genre [...]
