The Posture of Things
You're shopping for a chair. As you browse the aisles, you note the variety — from backless computer chairs to high bar stools to plush ...
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It's a luxury to read great books, films, works of art. You get to jump in, kick around, then stand back and think while the thing s... -
"Make no mistake. It's not revenge he's after. It's a reckoning." In Tombstone , Wyatt Earp and his brother... -
Arkady Plotnitsky who taught me Derrida in Philadelphia in 1989. When I was in college, I took a class on Derrida taught by the impecca... -
A thing is one thing that is many things. It is an assemblage point — a gathering together of diverse elements in a particular way. A rock ... -
The set up is familiar: good girls flirt with bad, get in over their heads, learn a lesson — with some boobs and teen exploitation along ...
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It's always a pleasure to see a new post from the hilarious bookbinder. This is 7,000 word piece* is incredibly concise. All further comments I will have to make face to face.
*by transitive equivalence
I've recently discovered: Dreyer is too fucking good to have ignored for this long. ...sigh.
Question.
The second face from the top, below Plainview's daguerreotype; the face of a woman looking off camera.
What actress is that? And from what film?
Don't know the actress off hand; it's from Cassavete's Faces—I didn't want to use the obvious Gena; and I like the way, in this shot, she's looking off camera rather than at the camera.
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