Bergman is a director that seems to be rather out of favor these days. Pretentious, old fashioned, one note, everyone from Conan O'Brian to Woody Allen (though a huge Bergman fan himself) has taken the …
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My favorite movie in the whole world: The Mirror.
July 23, 2007
There is a scene in Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror where a young child looks through a book of art. The camera is close, showing only the pages of the book and the child's hand as …
Great Books – Warlock by Oakley Hall, 1958
May 23, 2007
The gunfight at the OK Corral is one of the central stories in American mythology. Good and evil, law and order, such black and white concepts are set against each other with the "guys in …
Q: Is Origami Art? A: Sure, but…
May 8, 2007
Is origami art? The question is not completely fair since origami involves the act of creation after all, making its artistry hard to argue against. Still, can origami really be elevated to the level of …
This is my contribution to a zine of art, photography and writing loosely centered on the theme "person place thing". Anyone interested in getting a copy and checking out the other contributions should contact Jon …
The Many Nuanced Themes of Garth Ennis
April 26, 2007
Garth Ennis is one of my favorite comic book writers. But after reading his entire runs of Hitman, Preacher, Hellblazer, Punisher, Punisher Max, Punisher Max Presents Barracuda (max?), War Stories, Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, …
There is a strange theme in the plots of the two otherwise enjoyable movies; The Awful Truth (one of my favorite movies, as I explained in my previous blog post) and McLintock! (no masterpiece but …
My Favorite Movies 5 — The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)
April 20, 2007
Screwball comedies were a popular film genre from the 30's and 40's. The name "screwball comedy" is a pretty apt descriptor, the situations the leads found themselves in were most often quite "screwy" "wacky" "zany" …
Just what exactly is infinity plus one?
April 5, 2007
The notion of infinity is one of those concepts that seems beyond the realm of our understanding. Endless, forever; ideas that at first seem easy to understand, disintegrate upon closer examination. As a quick glimpse …
The Marx Brothers: As great as you’ve always heard.
March 28, 2007
Like the musicals of the 30s and 40s, the Marx Brothers are a more recent acquired taste for me. Years ago I saw a movie called Brain Donors (a modern version of the Marx Brothers …