…One Less Scene

I realize that pavement is wrong, but I still love it. I love the way it smells in the rain, and I love the way it disappears under the tires. Mostly I love the history that it reveals; it has a way of saying “we go here”. Recently I read a book called “Prelude to [...]

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Advertising is supposed to create brand recognition, not cool grammar, so the fact that this ridiculous double negative caught my attention actually means that the inane Sara Lee ad slogan is working. I don’t know why it bothers me. It’s like the commercial jingle that’s so irritating that years later you can still remember the [...]

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I watched Godard’s “A Woman is a Woman” tonight, which is definitely his cutest, if not his most important movie. I read somewhere that this was the last movie in which Godard was having fun, and that seems like it could be true. There are plenty of gratuitous “look at how hot my wife is” [...]

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After seeing Godard’s “Weekend” at the SIFF theater tonight, I’m now certain that Western civilization is definitely declining. “Weekend” is a movie about a square couple that murder their parents for money; it’s also about the spiritual chaos and emotional bankruptcy of post-capitalist society. Like most of Godard’s films, this one is full of surreal [...]

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