August 2010
28 posts
In 2009 Forbes Magazine compiled a list of the world’s most powerful...
– Forbes Magazine’s List of The World’s Most Powerful People - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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DRAFT: Kao and Alex 1
Just the start of something. May be nothing.
Erotomania is a type of delusion in which the affected person believes that...
– Erotomania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Carvaka believed that religion was invented and made up by men, having no...
– Cārvāka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Hume in his Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779) cited Epicurus in...
– Atheism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Delahaye said of his photographs that “it is just true that there are...
– artnet.com Magazine Features — The Real Thing
By far the most frequently reprinted chapter is chapter one,...
– Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On further reflection, imagining turns out to be much more reality-directed than...
– Reclaiming the Imagination - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
Kudos to Dennis Lim for his lucid overview, in Sunday’s Times, of the spate of...
– The Front Row: Life Works : The New Yorker
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry by Donald Brittain & John Kramer - NFB
I think Renoir is the only filmmaker who’s practically infallible, who has never...
– The Front Row: Truffaut’s Last Interview : The New Yorker
The one time I was really with him one-to-one was on the set of Late Spring. I...
– Midnight Eye interview: Donald Richie
Of all the acknowledged masters of cinema, the Japanese director Mikio Naruse is...
– Better Late Than Never: The Films of Mikio Naruse | Film | Slant Magazine
For the postwar Naruse, then, the release of emotion has tragic consequences;...
– Mikio Naruse
In the final moments of 1960’s When a Woman Ascends the Stairs—the last...
– Unknown Pleasures - Page 1 - Movies - New York - Village Voice
A River Called Titash, his return to feature filmmaking after a decade of...
– Separate ways - Features - Boston Phoenix
Naruse was mild-mannered and extraordinarily shy. Few of his closest...
– Director Mikio Naruse: An overlooked master - Features, Films - The Independent
Sleep is a complex physiologic state, the importance of which has long been...
– Sleep and cognition - WIREs Cognitive Science
What I envied were what his talent and success had bestowed on him, a sense of...
– Envy | Books | The Observer
Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a...
– The Films Of Jia Zhang-Ke (Part 1/2) « The Seventh Art
This is one of the suggestions I make to directors: if you think of sound when...
– FIPRESCI - Undercurrent - # 1 - Sound Auteur
The true motivation for Malick’s fascination with The New World lies in...
– FIPRESCI - Undercurrent - #2 - Film, Philosophy, and Terrence Malick
The true motivation for Malick’s fascination with The New World lies in...
– FIPRESCI - Undercurrent - #2 - Film, Philosophy, and Terrence Malick
This lengthy exposition gives some indication of the novelistic complexity of A...
– BFI | Sight & Sound | Emotional Engineering
Earlier in the film, Yang-Yang gives his uncle, A-Di, a picture of the back of...
– Edward Yang