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A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | yesterday
Quote of the Day (James Agee, on Silent-Film Comedy) “When a modern comedian gets hit on the head, for example, the most he is apt to do is look sleepy. When a silent comedian got hit on the head he seldom let it go so flatly. He realized a broad license, and a ruthless discipline within that license. It was his business to be as funny as possible physically, without the help or hindrance of...
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Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | yesterday
filemot (FIL-mot) noun, adjective The color of a dead or faded leaf: dull brown or yellowish brown. Etymology: From the corruption of the French term feuillemorte, from feuille (leaf) + morte (dead). Ultimately from Indo-European root bhel- (to thrive or bloom) that gave us flower, bleed, bless, foliage, blossom, and blade. Trivia What are citizens of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, called? Cariocas. Today...
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Name: Michael Cerveris Age: "Stone" Neighborhood: Flatiron Occupation: "Playing pretend" Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? James Agee. What's the best meal you've eaten in New York? The Hot Dog Française at Café Un Deux Trois . In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job? Battle the suspicion that my current job is...
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Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
As a Southerner, I am acutely aware of the concept of hand-me-down hatred. Even so, I was unprepared for the level of animosity that I found for photographer Walker Evans in these parts just a few years ago when I retraced part of the route that he and James Agee took for their landmark publication, “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.”
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Limited, Inc. (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
In 1940, Fortune Magazine (which was part of the Luce empire, and featured such writers as James Agee and Archibald Macleish – as well as Whittaker Chambers) produced an issue devoted to the relatively new industry of plastic. In Jeffrey Meikle’s American Plastic: A cultural history, he writes: “The editors seem uncertain how to present these new materials, whether to portray plastic...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
This is a no-brainer, right? Everyone loves Hitchcock . But it was not always so. The great director, whose North by Northwest comes out on a new, 50th Anniversary DVD and Blu-Ray on Tuesday, was once considered a populist panderer with little artistic value in his work. Even if you were a film critic, it was not the done thing to explore the mood and structure of a film. And even the rare critic...
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Poetry Hut Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
— Kindred Souls of Knoxville: Singer-songwriter-poet-playwright R.B. Morris orbits in the literary gravity of James Agee and their shared city — *** — Poster poems: Butterflies – A perennially popular subject for poetry, this time I want your flights of fancy about butterflies — *** — Poetry & Class — *** — Mute thy Coronation – — ***...
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Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... M aking the G rade - the poetry of James Agee.
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Daisy's Dead Air (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
I love how Halloween has taken over October. For one thing, it's lots of fun. For another, it stops the capitalists from foisting Christmas on us too soon. Without Halloween, Macy's would be decorating Christmas trees in September. And the best thing: OLD HORROR MOVIES. If you have never seen Robert Mitchum's deranged preacher (movie still at left) in Night of the Hunter , your big chance is tonight...
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Jabberwock (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
I've written earlier about my love for DVD extras, especially audio commentaries by the people who worked on a film, or video introductions by enthusiasts. I don't get to see as many of these things as I'd like (given general lack of time and the fact that the priority, sadly, is to watch the actual film first, with its own soundtrack!), but when I do I’m reminded that well-put-together extras...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
I just saw Gerald Peary's new documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism -- which incidentally features Cinematical's fearless managing editor Scott Weinberg as well as Cinematical alum Karina Longworth -- and I thoroughly enjoyed it, despite some lumps here and there. I'm having a hard time deciding whether or not non-critics will like it, but it celebrates many of my...
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The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
USA Feature Film Director: Sidney Meyers Writers: James Agee, Helen Levitt Cinematographers: Richard Bagley, Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb Composer: Ulysses Kay Narrator: Gary Merrill Cast: Donald Thompson, Clarence Cooper, Sadie Stockton, Estelle Evans, Paul Baucum Mixing documentary footage with (barely) scripted material, this lyrically shot, incredibly edited, wonderfully scored, and overwhelmingly...
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