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Lol, exactly--got to get my once-a-year quota in! I actually was looking for something else and saw this thread and couldn't resist responding. :) And I'm doing really well--been up in San Francisco...

Another great pick, though you've reminded me I need to go back and listen to it more thoroughly. They're really popular here in San Francisco, their hometown, though I have quite a bit of affection...

I LOVE this album, also one of my favorites of the year. I was hooked after stumbling across "Lord Only Knows," but then how could I not when it's one long sample of one of my favorite Françoise...

You ended up finishing the Fitzgerald? If I'm remembering correctly, you weren't too thrilled with it.

Did you like the Desai?

Had the Rohmer out from the library for a while, but never got...

Alas, I didn't beat SpaceOddity per my resolution, but still by far my all-time high. Nothing for school (both assigned and research) counted unless I read the entire volume.

* - Volume of...

Michael - 7.0
Passion of Joan of Ar - 9.0
Vampyr - 10.0
Ordet - 8.0
Gertrud - 9.0

I'm actually revisiting it right now--it was one of my favorites in early college. I've actually been curiously indifferent to the first quarter, but if I'm remembering correctly, it becomes more...

I considered making a trip up to the festival just to see 35 Rhums. Alas, neither of the showings were on days I could get off.

Hope you enjoy the festival though!

For me, each segment got progressively less impressive, and by the last I was struggling to pay attention. But I've seen few things more dazzling in film than Shearer performing that "Dragonfly...

Regardless, they're what, several 30 second to a minute long sequences scattered throughout the film?

By the way, this is where I saw it: thirteen.org. The entire film is uploaded there.

The "squiggle vision" is supposed to be ugly: it's hazy like a nightmare, and very evocative of an emotional state where everything is combusting, being ripped apart at its seams. Michael Sicinski,...

Here are the thoughts I wrote up a few weeks ago:

Sometimes I get “stuck” on things that I obsess over endlessly for a period of time—it’s mostly music and songs, but also on occasion...

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I... don't even know how to respond to that. I'd say a really high percentage of all literature, of all art, is based on and/or inspired by their creator's dreams and fantasies.
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What an odd characterization. In what way? Certainly the series is one of the most chaste "romances" imaginable, but even if it's not particularly emphasized in the film, Bella has a healthy sex...

Yeah, I just got a chance to go back and read this entire thread, and we're definitely on the same page it seems. And that screening anecdote is unfortunate--but then, what do critics know anyway?...

The Edge of the World - 6.0
The Life and Time of Colonel Blimp - 9.0
A Canterbury Tale - 7.5 (desperately needs a rewatch, I'd like it better now)
I Know Where I'm Going! - 8.0
A Matter of Life...

This is my favorite film of 2009 so far. Such a good film.

Liked it a lot, though for some reason I was a bit disappointed because it never did anything or went any place that really surprised me. But it's aging well in the memory, for sure.

For me,...

Scott was a book critic before he was a film critic, and his degree is in lit (from Harvard).

I guess the habits I form during school fits the way my mind works, and the way I do most of my reading (sitting down for about 2-3 hours a day to consciously study) is similar to studying for...

How does anyone get through school then? Maybe it's a lit major thing, because when you're taking four or five lit classes at a time and reading a novel in each you don't have the luxury of saying...

Weird. I don't get all this one-book-at-a-time thing. I currently have seven books going, and that's about average for me.

Ditto.

Kiss Me Deadly - 9.0
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? - 7.0

And why exactly have I have not seen Sister George by now?

Predictably I didn't care for the list itself, but I read the entire thing simply for the quote bubble stills. Well done.