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Author Archives: Fabrizio del Wrongo
“Tiny Furniture”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Lena Dunham has deflected attempts to categorize her work as mumblecore. Watching her “Tiny Furniture” I understood why: the picture is tightly scripted and controlled, a caterpillar-like series of awkward-comic vignettes that never lapses into navel gazing … Continue reading
“Bandits of Orgosolo”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I enjoyed this late Neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Seta. (What a name for an Italian filmmaker to be cursed with!) It deals with the attempts of a Sardinian shepherd to evade the law after … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Bandits of Orgosolo, movies, Neorealism, Robert Flaherty, Taviani Brothers, The Bicycle Thief, Vittorio De Seta
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“Life Without Principle”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Johnnie To’s latest, entitled “Life Without Principle,” combines the financial-and-business-sector setting of his last film, the romantic comedy “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” with his customary gangster milieu. It’s organized around the Greek debt crisis, which … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Politics and Economics
Tagged Hong Kong, Johnnie To, Life Without Principle, movies
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Girliness, Alive and Well on the Internet
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The culture doesn’t provide for much in the way of girliness these days. Have you noticed? I guess I should define what I mean by girliness, but I’m not sure I can whittle it down to … Continue reading
“Thor”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Kenneth Branagh has directed “Thor” with the sort of gloppy boyishness that I’ve sometimes enjoyed in his acting. The tone is consistently breathless, jaunty even, and not a frame of it is underworked. I took it as an … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Anthony Hopkins, Chris Hemsworth, Kenneth Branagh, Marvel Comics, movies, Natalie Portman, Thor, Tom Hiddleston
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Helicoptering
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: You hear a lot about helicopter parenting these days. The term refers to the tendency of contemporary parents to monitor and assist their adorable little meat spores at every micro-stage of their development — to cajole … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Education, Humor, Personal reflections, Television
Tagged Advertising, Brazzers, college, Google Chrome, I Am Charlotte Simmons, Jess Time, Liam Neeson, Parenting, Taken, Tom Wolfe
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Return On Investment
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Pop culture can be stultifying. It grinds us down, appeals to our lowest impulses, sometimes sells us out. But every once in a while it manages to harness the full weight of its resonances, to … Continue reading
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