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““I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.”
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– Great Expectations
“A warm Saturday morning in January, some gentle fluke in the atmosphere. We...”
Paranoid Movie Night: The Tenant (1976)
Roman Polanski’s world is a scary place. Even if we choose to set aside the director’s autobiographical horrors—his narrow escape from the Holocaust, which nevertheless claimed the life of his mother, the brutal murder of his wife and child, and his permanent exile from the United States after he drugged and sodomized a 13-year-old girl—we are still faced with a body of...
The Wildness
“…I’m 25 now and I’m not ready to be anyone’s ball and chain, nor do I want that weight around my ankle. And I also know that it’s not really possible even if it were to happen. Even if I found someone to love, I know that it would not be forever because in the very core of my being I don’t believe that such love exists. And some people may pity me that or feel threatened by that, some people like...
“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that...”
– (via Brad Elterman)
Urban Decay Movie Night: Invasion of the...
There are two things in this world that I love which come together seamlessly in the remake of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers: movies where Donald Sutherland lets out a crazy howl (it happens in Don’t Look Now too!) and movies about San Francisco. I really wish I had lived in SF during the 1970s. Soul sisters walking around North Beach with bellbottoms and giant hoop earrings? Yes please....
Urban Decay Movie Night: Escape from New York...
“I don’t give a fuck about your war, or your president.” —Snake!
I cannot describe the consuming sense of anticipation with which I sat down to this movie. My dear friend MT had long described it as one of the ultimate Urban Decay films, and in conversations leading up to the actual viewing of the movie, he had done a first-rate job of building up my excitement. And John...
February 2010
7 posts
