Category Archives: cinema

medical waste

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 September 21 by Anton

Because of Hugh Laurie, I watched the first episode of House, M.D., and that was enough: if the premiere is so formulaic (mysterious and scary illness, misdiagnosis, misdiagnosis, affirmation of the value of human life, intuitive leap, happy ending) there’s … Continue reading →

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AFF’s Brainwash :: Freedom and Firefly

Posted on Sunday, 2005 August 28 by Anton

At Brainwash, Sara Hinson analyzes the frontier ethic represented by Mal Reynolds of Firefly. (Only 33 days to go!)

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cinema 1964

Posted on Friday, 2005 July 15 by Anton

As I may have mentioned before, I arrange my Netflix queue mostly by date. Since I caught up to my own birth, the number of movies per year has grown sharply, so this may be my longest post yet.

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QotD

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 July 12 by Anton

“I think the world has been run long enough by well-meaning professionals. We might give the amateurs a chance now.” —Carol Fisher in Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent (1940)

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Studio Gibberish

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 June 22 by Anton

Miyazaki’s film (ハウルの動く城) of Diana Wynne Jones’s novel Howl’s Moving Castle is pretty, of course, but the story got lost somewhere. The royal sorceress has an unexplained grudge against Howl, an eccentric but kind young wizard with an unexplained reputation … Continue reading →

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Why can’t the English learn to speak?

Posted on Thursday, 2005 June 09 by Anton

Got an idea just now that might sell a few copies: Monty Python Annotated for Americans, containing answers to such questions as “What dialect is Palin doing in this bit?” This thought was prompted by watching My Fair Lady. In … Continue reading →

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cinema 1949

Posted on Sunday, 2005 May 22 by Anton

Three Ealing comedies recently became available that I had long wanted to see. Evidently I’m not alone: I waited several weeks for these on Netflix. Alas that the sound on these discs is not as clear as one might hope. … Continue reading →

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