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A Nats Fan's Notes: Double Header
To devote yourself to a losing team is a strange act of faith. Growing up near Philadelphia I rooted for the Phillies, of course, but by the time I’d come to baseball consciousness they were in the...
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TVRB: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, by Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is a hero for those of us who still don’t know what we want to do when we grow up, both a ray of hope and an object of envy for any writer who ever feels trapped in their specialty (see, for...
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The Madness of Kim Ki-young
Imagine walking around Washington, DC on a spring night. You happen upon a museum that’s open, and find out there’s a movie playing inside, so you go in. You’ve never heard of the film or the...
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TVRB: Richard Brautigan and the Aesthetic of Failure
When I was in a bookstore in Tokyo a couple of years ago I came across a framed, signed edition of Richard Brautigan’s devastating little “Love Poem.” I hadn’t thought about Brautigan for a while,...
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A Nats Fan's Notes: Marcia's Birthday Edition
It’s getting to that point in the season when the Nats have settled into their underachieving ways. Everyone is performing slightly below average. Manager Jim Riggleman’s habitual perplexed grimace has...
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A couple of weeks ago my friend T---, who programs films at another area theater, decided it was time for a business meeting, and what better place to have it then at the ballpark? The date we chose...
View ArticleIt's Comedy!
Last week two important documents hit the internet. In one, Mrs. Bourne, a stern English mother-in-law-to-be scolded her future daughter-in-law regarding her "uncouth" and "vulgar" behavior during a...
View ArticleIt's Comedy! Part Two
Last week two important documents hit the internet. In one, Mrs. Bourne, a stern English mother-in-law-to-be scolded her future daughter-in-law regarding her "uncouth" and "vulgar" behavior during a...
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Article 16
Even though I saw it several weeks ago, I’ve been avoiding writing about Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams. The reason is that thinking too much about those Chauvet cave paintings threatens to...
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TVRB: Can't Stop Won't Stop
The Hip Hop Kung Fu Connection events we did at the Freer a couple of weeks ago inspired me to dig a little deeper into hip hop history, so I picked up a copy of Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A...
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Finally: The Chaser
A while ago my lady and I sat down to watch The Chaser, a Korean film that was generating a lot of buzz at the time. A few minute in, a serial killer, after imprisoning a prostitute in a filthy...
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Taking Chances: The Busan International Film Festival 2011
Busan (formerly Pusan) is probably the most intense stop on my festival circuit. There’s too much of everything: too many movies, too many meetings, too many friends to catch up with that I only see...
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Karin Chien on Independent Chinese Cinema
A while ago I was talking to a Chinese filmmaker about a Chinese film (not his) that I found lacking. Its style (slow, contemplative) somehow didn’t match its subject matter, draining it of the power...
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Dubstep
Funny that there is a form of dancing that mimicking the artificial motion of slow motion and freeze frames, and it is so convincing that when filmed, you can't tell if it's real or not.
View ArticleCrepuscule Junction
My short story, "Crepuscule Junction" is available in Underground Voices' annual anthology, Hotel Oblivion. It's only available in print, so buy it (please).
View ArticleTwo New Pieces on Korean Cinema
I have two new articles out on the interwebs:Turn, Turn, Turn: The Seasons of Korean Cinema, in Bright Lights Film JournalKorean Cinema 2011: The View from Here, in Korean Cinema Today.Enjoy.
View ArticleKorea Trip Blog 1
Here is the first of two posts on the official Freer|Sackler Blog re: my trip to Korea this month.
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The Problem with Google Street View Art
I've written about Geoff Dyer before. Since then, my ambivalence about him has only grown. In his New York Times Book Review column, for instance, he often seems to be reaching for appropriately quirky...
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And here is my second Korea Trip post on the official Freer and Sackler Blog.
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The Presence of Lau Ching-wan
Sometimes you have to take what you can get with a movie. In this case I'm thinking of Fairy Tale Killer, which I saw at PiFan. Despite director Danny Pang's attempts to goose it with stylish camera...
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