Killer - The

John Woo’s "The Killer" was a true gamechanger, at least for this critic. The one-two punch of Woo’s 1989 action masterpiece with his equally magnificent "Hard Boiled" changed the way I looked at the genre in my teens, and truly inspired hundreds of imitators. For anyone in my age range who can remember watching "The Killer" (likely on VHS) decades ago, the thought of remaking a flawless film feels cinematically heretical. And yet Hollywood has been circling such a project for decades with Ri...

Apocalypse When

Fully: "Apocalypse When: Our Fascination with 'The End' since the Ancient World - Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas" Skip to content May 6, 2024 ...

Of Death and Watches

by David Winner 1976 All sixth-grade summer, the name of the Greek historian Xenophon pounded in my ears like a minor chord banged upon a piano.  I had borrowed a book by him from my father’s shelves but misplaced it in the last days of school. Fearing the wrenching disappointment that accompanied misplaced articles and forgotten tasks, I would slip nervously past the empty space in the bookshelf where Xenophon belonged. An English professor rather than a classicist, he would hardly hav...

Le Morte d'Arthur 19

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Le Morte d'Arthur:1,19 (thing) See all of Le Morte d'Arthur:1,19, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Evil Catullus Sun Oct 15 2000 at 21:24:36 Le Morte d'Arthur | TABLE OF CONTENTS | NEXT | PREVIOUS CHAPTER XIX How King Arthur rode to Carlion, and of his dream, and how he saw the questing beast. THEN after the departing of King Ban and of King Bors, King Arthur rode into Carlion. And thither came to him, King Lot's wife, ...

If You Were Dead, You’d Be Obsessed with Death Too

Extinction by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi On a balmy summer day in 2019, at the tender age of twenty-five, I left Los Angeles, that angel-less city of angels, with the intention never to look back. As the plane traveled at five-hundred and seventy-five miles per hour towards Barcelona, I muttered a quick prayer of thanks to the New Migrant Voices Fund for footing the bill in acknowledgement of my courageous literary sensibilities. In my mind’s eye, I was already disembarking, finding my e...

Tuesday - film - Review Celestial Embodiment Of Death

TELLURIDE – At a festival full of gutsy films Daina O. Pusić’s directorial feature debut, "Tuesday," may be the most visionary of them all. No small feat when you’re premiering opposite works from Yorgos Lanthimos, Pablo Larrain, Jonathan Glazer and Emerald Ferrell, among others. Then again, it’s not that surprising when one of the movie’s central characters is the eternal harbinger of doom embodied in the physical manifestation of a white-eyed macaw bird. Oh yes, Pusić and her anti-hero are ...

Sometimes I Think About Dying - Sundance 2023 film

‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’ relies on a highly individualistic approach. We see its modest workplace through the central character’s eyes. Daisey Ridley (Star Wars Sequel Trilogy) plays introverted Fran, who isolates herself in a cubicle of her own accord. The world moves around without taking notice of her. Her colleagues chat about their lives outside the office while she sits silently in front of her computer, relegating the tasks with the required efficiency and getting lost in t...

ASFTINDA Group Read W4 - Greatly Exaggerated by platykurt

ASFTINDA Group Read W4 - Greatly Exaggerated by platykurthttps://feedly.com/i/entry/P/ZZhFmXtA9tEUnZDlC7kl/RCexJKbwIxXOoERYd4Ig=_186046520cd:136f3ae:e07de6e4Greatly Exaggerated is an unassuming book review of HL Hix's "Morte d'Author: An Autopsy" that surprisingly contains an important key to Wallace's workWallace sounds dismissive. He writes, "For those of us civilians who know in our gut that writing is an act of communication between one human being and anothe...

Robert Burns

RB is also Roast Beef and Roland Barthes! -zas Jun 2022 Robert Burns (person) See all of Robert Burns, there is 1 more in this node. (person) by Gone Jackal (2.9 mon) Rep: 51 ( +52 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Mon Jan 15 2001 at 17:32:42 A short, oversimplified biography: Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January, 1759 in Alloway, a village in Ayrshire, Scotland, to a poor but educated farmer. Since the village was too poor to afford a school master, he was educated by his fath...

The Death of Me Yet (1971)

Exploring a zippy premise from offbeat narrative angles, telefilm   The Death of Me Yet   is more a compendium of promising ideas than a fully realized dramatic statement, but an engaging leading performance and solid supporting turns help make the piece as palatable as it is befuddling. The movie is about a KGB sleeper agent living a seemingly normal life in California until circumstances cause him to question his allegiance to Mother Russia. While much the plot comprises the twi...

The Death of the Editor: Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch"

There is a moment, deep within the maze of Wes Anderson’s latest film, when art takes on the power to set a prisoner free. We are in France, in the time of de Gaulle (or someone like him). At the police station in the town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, Roebuck Wright (Jeffrey Wright) has been in a holding cell called the Chicken Coop for some days. An anonymous American, still in the eveningwear from the clandestine gay bar where he was picked up, his only contact is a number on the polite rejection le...

The memory of perfection: Digital faces and nostalgic franchise cinema - Dan Golding, 2021

This article is concerned with the intersection of digitally augmented performance and nostalgia in contemporary Hollywood franchise cinema. The practice of 'de-ageing' or even resurrecting actors following their real-life deaths in films like Tron: Legacy (Joseph Kosinski, 2010), Terminator Genysis (Alan Taylor, 2015), Rogue One (Gareth Edwards, 2016), Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019), and a large number of Marvel Cinematic Un...

Soiled, Torn, Dead

Soiled, Torn, Dead Chapter 7, Part II, of Lolita is an extraordinarily powerful piece of writing, even by the standards of that work. This is the chapter that begins: "I am now faced with the distasteful task of recording a definite drop in Lolita’s morals". In this chapter Humbert Humbert describes how the twelve-year-old Dolores Haze was turned into a prostitute by his demands on her. Her allowance was granted only on condition that she consents to his sexual requests.He reports: "Only very...

Repost: blood and blood rituals

The ancient Hellenes had an odd view of blood; for one, they made a very clear distinction between human blood and animal blood, and ascribed powers of pollution and purification to it. It's a fascinating--if not somewhat dark topic--and I'd like to take a moment to discuss blood and blood rituals in ancient Hellas today.To a modern practitioner, 'blood' most likely has a negative connotation to it; it's considered miasmic, after all, at least the blood of humans...

Gerald Shur - obituary - founder of Witness Protection Service

Very Real, and Very Haunting - Reporting on a Man Who Set Himself on Fire - The New York Times

‘Very Real, and Very Haunting’: Reporting on a Man Who Set Himself on FireA makeshift memorial for David Buckel at the site of his suicide in Prospect Park.Christopher Lee for The New York Times On a beautiful Saturday in April, I got an alarming news alert on my phone: A man had died after setting himself on fire in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. His name was David Buckel. He was a prominent L.G.B.T. rights lawyer who had become an advocate for the environment.When I came to work after the weeken...

Examples of Symbolism in Art

Symbolism is to convey the hidden meaning to the reader or listener. It tells us about artistic expression and represents abstract ideas.  However, it is not limited to poetry and literature. Symbolism is one of the most important elements which gives depth to art; it can be the color of the painting or the depiction of characters that are significant to symbolic to some specific themes. A painter uses symbolism when he wants to put emotions and ideas in the picture which we can’t experience ...

Celebrity Deaths in the 1960s (person) by ravy - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Celebrity Deaths in the 1960s (person) See all of Celebrity Deaths in the 1960s, no other writeups in this node. (person) by ravy Fri Mar 28 2003 at 1:16:48 Unusual, unnatural or untimely deaths of random celebrities between 1960 and 1969. Homicides, suicides, overdoses, accidents and any sort of death before the (arbitrarily chosen) age of 50. The focus is on actors, directors and other movie-related people, although singers, musi...

Deadly Barks: Acousmaticity and Post-Animality in Lucrecia Martel's La ciénaga - Film-Philosophy

Deadly Barks: Acousmaticity and Post-Animality in Lucrecia Martel's La ciénaga Abstract Acousmatic sound is often defined as a sound whose source is unseen, that is, in terms of a separation between the senses of hearing and seeing. Discussions about the acousmatic have generally focused on the ontological relation between the sonic effect and the visually unavailable source that produces it. This article examines the function of acousmatic so...

Issue 4: Meditations — Book XI

About Book XI Issue 1: Science Fiction Issue 2: Humor Issue 3: Short Story ...

Mortality Throughout History: 5 Types of Memento Mori

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Auberon Waugh on wine - and tales of a lost London - masculinity - future of immortality - Kierkegaard

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Book of Endings - suicide note inspires ongoing research and writing for DC writer

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What's with All the Oranges?

The Anniversary You Can’t Refuse: 40 Things You Didn’t Know About The Godfather On March 15, 1972, The Godfather hit movie screens. In the four decades since, it has become acknowledged as one of the greatest movies of all time. TIME has compiled the most interesting stories, anecdotes and tidbits from the film's production prevnextWhat’s with All the Oranges?Courtesy of Everett Collection Though some have interpreted the presence of oranges in various scenes as a harbinger of death to come (...