Monthly Archives: February 2006

Savages (1975)

Posted on 2/13/2006 by mauer

I’d always looked at the DVD sitting there, especially with Michael O’Donoghue’s name on it. So odd. I mean, it’s a Merchant-Ivory film, co-written by O’Donoghue (!), that refers to the said Savages – on the DVD box yet, as … Continue reading →

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Wholpin DVD

Posted on 2/13/2006 by mauer

From the McSweeney’s people, who had already launched a rather good monthly magazine that used to be about books and writers called The Believer (It’s not so much about that anymore, and while still good, I no longer get it … Continue reading →

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Cache/Hidden

Posted on 2/13/2006 by reynolds

Jeff and I saw this together last night. We walked in as fans of director Michael Haneke, and walked out with that adoration confirmed, if not exuberantly so–I think it was a strong, smart, challenging film, if not quite the … Continue reading →

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13 Short Films about Arnab and Jeff

Posted on 2/11/2006 by reynolds

Perhaps, like me, you’ve noticed an underlying–sometimes surfacing–tension between Jeff and Arnab in posts on this site. As I have learned from the movies, such tensions inevitably signal a future moment of intense connection and union. I have been trying … Continue reading →

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The Wild Bunch

Posted on 2/9/2006 by john

Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch is being remade. This angers me not because I’m against remakes, but because I have always claimed that I am not against remakes. I may say that there’s nothing wrong with Soderbergh recasting Ocean’s 11, … Continue reading →

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Forget crap–try sleaze!

Posted on 2/9/2006 by reynolds

I promised it elsewhere, and I’m hoping for a small respite from odes to Catwoman and Van Damme (although, when teamed with Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam, Dennis Rodman, and/or a second Van Damme, the Belgian meatstick fits into this heading, … Continue reading →

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In Search of…

Posted on 2/7/2006 by john

In light of recent events in Afghanastan in particular and throughout the Muslim world in general, I thought we might revisit a post from several weeks back regarding Albert Brooks’s In Search of Comedy in the Muslim World. I’m worried … Continue reading →

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Oddities, Rareties, Un-Findables, etc

Posted on 2/5/2006 by michael

I’ve decided to make a trek to the New York Museum of TV and Radio sometime in the next month–with the main intention of seeing Peckinpah’s TV adaptation of Noon Wine, which seems to be entirely unavailable otherwise. If you … Continue reading →

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Yes!

Posted on 2/4/2006 by gio

just saw sally potter’s Yes and i’m fairly blown away. i’m surprised no one has posted on it yet (though the ever reliable jeff mentioned it in an earlier post!). this is my first sally potter, so i won’t be … Continue reading →

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muscles from brussels

Posted on 2/1/2006 by arnab

there was a period in the late 80s and early 90s when only one person in our circle of friends in sector 21, noida had a vcr and a flat devoid of parents where we could watch movies, get drunk … Continue reading →

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