Words of wisdom from H.H. Schopenhauer: “Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.” An inversion: perhaps the fool is the person who has many books on his/her shelf; […]
[Continued from Part I.] III. The Black Leather Womb Refn did two more films in the Pusher series – following first Frank’s sidekick Tonny and then his boss, Milo – and the films grow slowly but increasingly towards a dark kind of comedy (in Pusher III, Milo is simultaneously struggling with the violent mechanics of distribution […]
I. The Black Suitcase Full of Cash The Russian writer Viktor Pelevin once suggested that the real protagonist of western culture as a black briefcase full of money. Pelevin’s metaphor is one of those ostensibly off-the-cuff, Zizek-esque film-studies truisms that gnaws at you, prompting you to poke around your personal collection for counter-examples and leaving […]
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As president Bill Pullman boisterously declared in Independence Day, The Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to […]
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