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I fell asleep near just about every paragraph Read the scene where gravity is pulling…
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. . .I began to see Gabriel García Márquez in a new light, as a…
Love to Lovefest You, Baby: A Look Into Community Writing of the Dissolve Commentariat
It’s two years now since we lost The Dissolve. We’ve clung to connections, here and…
The Railway’s There Yet: THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (Year of the Month)
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who…
All God’s Children: John Cage’s Apartment House 1776
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Scenic Route: THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007)
There Will Be Blood, which has been getting some good notices lately, portrays a historical transformation…
A Brief History of The Solute
It has always been complicated to explain exactly where the articles I write post, to…
The Spiral: Avathoir and wallflower Talk About Thomas Pynchon, 1: V.
wallflower: V. (no relation to the Vendetta or the TV series with all the sexy…
Film on the Internet: GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002) on Amazon Prime
“It would be like no one even knew we was ever here.” Think of Gangs…
For the Open Heart, For the Willing Hand: HOW THE WEST WAS WON and American History as Spectacle
Technically, only two narrative films were ever made in proper three-strip Cinerama. The one with…