If you hate what Adorno wrote about jazz you should see what he wrote about classical music!
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Dr. Faustroll
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@moonbeeaam Whoa, thanks for sharing this. I haven’t read this Berger text (on to the list it goes) but super interesting as J.C. Monteiro’s last film Vai e Vem centers on this same tree as a site of encounters between life and death as well!
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@ASPertierra @mcmansionhell I concur
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lukewarm pointless take: academic naming conventions have it backwards. The subject should come first, then the broad title. The book pictured here is correct, and a rarity. Reversed it would be The Crisis of National Cinema (literally could be anywhere/thing): Bunuel and Mexico
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One of the funniest branding choices for academic books is the title that makes it sound like a really broad comparative study while the actual book is the narrowest possible case study
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@alexcfields I have not, though (caveat that it has been many years) I really liked his short book on Tati
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Tell me you went to the EGS without telling me you went to the EGS
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@fleetingjpegs @Ronceraille @bnjmncrs And the new wrinkle to Powell’s Wager™ is the weighted odds the new book is a print on demand
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Bill Orcutt is famous enough that Harry Pussy is now Bill Orcutt’s old band
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@CaptainConcurs @maustermuhle Now do motorists. Any of their actions reflect poorly on them as a group?
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@maustermuhle Many pro-sumer cyclists seem to really enjoy riding in motor vehicle lanes, on sidewalks, and to a lesser extent dedicated bike lanes.
I'm a pedestrian, driver, and bike rider, and I find it to reflect poorly on cyclists when they demand lanes which go unused much of the time.
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The Trump administration is removing a protected bike lane that runs along 15th Street from the National Mall to the Tidal Basin. Officials say it causes traffic; bike advocates say it actually makes everyone safer. 51st.news/trump-administ…
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Every time I see the title of this movie I momentarily confuse it with Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
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Baxter, Vera Baxter, 1977, 1080p REMUX, 24.08 GB, eng subs
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@muttgomery @BigMeanInternet That makes sense. And I’m revealing my interests & inclinations in the broad Pynchon field w/my comments. Like Harun Farocki could make greater sense of GR! I find the sentimentalism in PTA is too divorced from the world. The great affective depths of M&D don’t stand on their own
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@DrFaustroll @BigMeanInternet Regardless of whether I'd prefer worldier adaptations (gimme the Thanatoids and Godzilla footprint and tiki airline hijackings) seems that P enjoys the PTA focalization, which I think you describe well. Slapstick sentimentalism isn't all of P but its important.
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@muttgomery @BigMeanInternet Of course, but PTA isn’t a cartoons director. Tashlin would have made a better Inherent Vice.I don’t think PTA thinks about the world & systems in any way at all. He takes a/the world and conically focus in on personal experience & at times dilates out but the world stays receded
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@DrFaustroll @BigMeanInternet Pynchon famously a cartoons guy
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@BigMeanInternet This is why I have never understood what Pynchon sees in PTA as an interpreter of his work
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This part is the crux of the book to me, where Pynchon reveals this longer lineage, the family connection to the Old Left, the perspective earned through generations of anti-capitalist struggle in capitalist America. There's no silly name for Joe Hill.
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Preservation or privacy, either way is ok with me, you both are doing great stuff, but can either of them help me find a way to watch Trois Ponts sur la Rivière, dir. Biette?
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The thing they don’t reveal when you first see Entr’acte or Meshes of the Afternoon and take an interest in experimental film is how much time you’re gonna spend watching naked hippies
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