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Tag Archives: Paul Thomas Anderson
July/August 2020 Viewing Diary
Let’s get to it. July and August have been very … extra. Movies are fine, but I am gravitating towards series, anything I can binge-watch. I get clicked into something that interests me, and then feel so relieved that I … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged biopic, Brad Pitt, comedy, coming of age, documentary, drama, Eminem, Flannery O'Connor, horror, Jackass, John Garfield, Leonardo DiCaprio, musicals, Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, religious movies, romantic drama, sci-fi, Shelley Winters, women directors
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Year in Review: Running my mouth in 2019
Thanks, everyone, who hangs out here, who likes what I do, whether you’re an Elvis fan, a Supernatural fan, a general cinephile, a book-lover, or just someone who’s been checking in periodically for 17 years – WHAT? – I appreciate … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, James Joyce, Movies, Television
Tagged Agnes Varda, animation, Anna Karina, backting, Badlands, Belfast, Bibi Andersson, Bob Dylan, Bong Joon-Ho, Canada, Charlotte Rampling, comedy, Dennis Hopper, documentary, Doris Day, drama, Dubliners, Elvis Presley, Emily Dickinson, Frank O'Hara, friends, Gaspar Noe, George Stevens, Gold Diggers of 1933, horror, Ireland, Jean Arthur, Joanna Hogg, Joe Berlinger, Joel McCrea, John Ford, Kristen Stewart, Leonardo DiCaprio, Linda Manz, Marlon Brando, Martin Scorsese, Mary Oliver, Matthias Schoenaerts, Myrna Loy, Nick Nolte, Nick Tosches, Nicolas Roeg, Out of the Blue, Paraguay, Paul Thomas Anderson, poetry, Poland, Present Tense, Robert Evans, Sandrine Bonnaire, sci-fi, Sophia Takal, Sucker Punch, Supernatural, Sylvia Plath, Terrence Malick, Tom Noonan, What Happened Was, William Powell, Willie Nelson, women directors, year in writing, Zac Efron
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February 2019 Viewing Diary
St. Agatha (2019; d. Darren Lynn Bousman) I reviewed this nunsploitation horror film which I resisted at first for some reason, but then I got into the spirit of it. It’s fun. It’s what it needs to be. It also … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Badlands, Cuba, documentary, Elia Kazan, Gaspar Noe, Hungary, Ireland, Jared Padalecki, Joaquin Phoenix, Meryl Streep, Patricia Neal, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Poland, Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Steven Spielberg, Supernatural, Terrence Malick, Tom Hanks, women directors
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Remembrance of Photos Past and Inherent Vice
When I was a kid, my best friend’s parents had one of those huge Time-Life photo books. I became obsessed with it. It was very disturbing stuff and I was drawn to it with a queasy fascination. I was 9, … Continue reading
Posted in Art/Photography, Movies, Personal
Tagged Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson, photography
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Year in Review: Running my mouth in 2018
Thanks, everyone, who hangs out here, who likes what I do, whether you’re an Elvis fan, a Supernatural fan, a general cinephile, a book-lover, or just someone who’s been checking in periodically for almost 16 years – WHAT? – I … Continue reading
Posted in James Joyce, Movies, Television
Tagged Anne V. Coates, Burt Reynolds, documentary, Doris Day, Dorothy Malone, Elvis Presley, England, Finnegans Wake, Frank Sinatra, Gena Rowlands, Germany, Gold Diggers of 1933, Grace Kelly, Hal Ashby, Howard Hughes, Ian McEwan, James Cagney, Joan Didion, Joaquin Phoenix, Julie Christie, Lynne Ramsay, Mexico, Minnie and Moskowitz, Natalie Portman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Play It As It Lays, Robert Altman, Russia, Sanaa Lathan, South Korea, Supernatural, Warren Beatty, women directors, Woody Allen, year in writing
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September 2018 Viewing Diary
Slacker (1990; d. Richard Linklater) Did a little walk down Richard Linklater lane, starting at the top, and then going all the over the place chronologically. If you think about Linklater, and his extraordinary body of work – and you … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Burt Reynolds, Charles Laughton, documentary, Goldie Hawn, Jack Black, Kathleen Turner, Keanu Reeves, Kristen Stewart, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Patricia Arquette, Paul Thomas Anderson, Richard Linklater, Robert Aldrich, Robert Mitchum, Stalin, Supernatural, women directors
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A deliberate nod? See for yourself.
1. Julianne Moore as “Amber Waves”, sitting across from her husband, with a lawyer and a judge present, fighting for visitation/partial custody of her son in Boogie Nights. 2. Gena Rowlands as “Sarah Lawson”, sitting across from her husband, with … Continue reading
Posted in Directors, Movies
Tagged Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Julianne Moore, Paul Thomas Anderson
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For Rogerebert.com’s “If We Picked the Oscar Winners”: On Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless
The Rogerebert.com contributors are each writing a piece for the “If We Picked the Oscar Winners” series on the site. We all voted on each category. I wrote on Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless as our chosen contender for Best Foreign Film. … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Agnes Varda, coming of age, documentary, drama, France, Paul Thomas Anderson, reviews, Russia, women directors
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January 2018 Viewing Diary
Supernatural, Season 7, episode 10 “Death’s Door” (2011; d. Robert Singer) What an extraordinary episode of television. It’s funny: I too block out what happened in that kitchen in Bobby’s childhood. I forget it almost every time. Those actors playing … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Charles Vidor, Chile, documentary, Dogfight, Doris Day, Fredric March, James Cagney, Japan, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Kurt Russell, Norma Shearer, Paul Thomas Anderson, Paul Verhoeven, Sebastián Lelio, Supernatural, women directors, X-Files
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