Kevin Macdonald’s The Mauritanian leapt immediately to mind.
Posts by Chris Hodge
I thought Shaw was a nice bit of seasoning in True Detective: Night Country.
One of the great love stories of all time. I think I stopped after the first or second season as well, but may have been my ADHD.
Back in the long ago English composition books would provide samples of form letters. When I was running a development office for a non-profit back in the 80s, we’d come up with boilerplate - what we had accomplished, etc. - and recycle the hell out of it. This doesn’t bother me.
Reich was on BBC3 this weekend, and what made me laugh is his voice sounds just like his music. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The piece Glass performed at Big Ears several years ago, I think it was a piano concerto, was incredible.
Did you happen to see Ice Tower while you were there? (I liked Earwig quite a lot.)
If a person’s never forgotten they’ll never be rediscovered.
"Immersion in visual narratives have warped how first-person narration is executed, becoming more like the description from a first-person “camera” view (like ... in a video game), without any of the interiority we can and should be experiencing from a first-person narrator telling a story."
No. No, you’re not.
I saw where it made a list of the best cast movies of the year.
I rewatched it just for the soundtrack.
Saw this on Reddit:
“I went to Stockholm Sweden not too long ago and walked into this little record shop with a friend. The guy working had a big tv playing a Russian movie called Come and See but it was muted and within the store he was playing Abul Mogard and man! When you talk about a vibe.”
Allison Janney in S2. This is the promo from Netflix if you’re not that far yet. youtu.be/_yIeRD9cMQg?...