July 2011
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aclockworkorange asked: Fellow Kubrick Lover,
Yes I have seen The Killing and I loved it. Colorless and low budget as it is it’s still very Kubrick and true to the film noir / heist genre. Kubrick mastered every genre he worked in (scifi with 2001, comedy with Dr. Strangelove, war with Full Metal Jacket, period with Barry Lyndon, horror with The Shining, etc.) and The Killing is one of those...
Yes I have seen The Killing and I loved it. Colorless and low budget as it is it’s still very Kubrick and true to the film noir / heist genre. Kubrick mastered every genre he worked in (scifi with 2001, comedy with Dr. Strangelove, war with Full Metal Jacket, period with Barry Lyndon, horror with The Shining, etc.) and The Killing is one of those...
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You know those times when you’re paying noticeably more attention to something you’re reading, and you feel you’re absorbing it exceptionally well? Do you think that mind-set applies to other activities and does it interact the same?
I feel like I could read more, but I’m going to start drinking and watch Taxi Driver for the first time.
They’ve discovered how to...
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Relief was fleeting, my prospects still dark.
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Burnt Norton
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the...
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Tumblr was crashing while I posted that video. Not deleting that irony!
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Wrote a long post about The Tree of Life. Posting this instead.