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Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Shouting Thomas is having bear troubles. Have you noticed how many scientific and/or academic studies are done on toys? In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that some college is offering a degree in Barbie Studies. … Continue reading
“Carmen Comes Home”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This sprightly, sweet-spirited comedy from 1951 was the first full-length Japanese film made in color. It features Hideko Takamine and Toshiko Kobayashi as Kin and Maya; they’re a couple of big-city strippers who cause a scandal when they pay a visit to Kin’s hometown, … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Carmen Comes Home, Film, Hideko Takamine, Hulu+, Japan, Keisuke Kinoshita, movies, Shochiku
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“Black Rainbow”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I semi-enjoyed this late ’80s film from writer-director Mike Hodges. It’s a thriller with supernatural trappings that’s perhaps most notable for its setting: the fetid, chipped-paint American South of Flannery O’Connor. (It was filmed in Charlotte, … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged American South, Black Rainbow, Film, Mike Hodges, movies, Rosanna Arquette, thrillers
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Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Lesbians react to lesbian porn. Dennis Mangan discovers a group of traditionalist French women. Gucci Little Piggy spotlights some amusing (and somewhat phony looking) images of working mothers. Swooshiness! Reflectiveness! Transparency! Please save me from all … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Linkathons, Movies, Politics and Economics, Sex, Technology
Tagged chris marker, Film, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, lesbians, Mauritz Stiller, movies, Penn Station, Satyajit Ray
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Of Kings, Coinage, and Castration
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I recently watched the first two seasons of “Monarchy,” a BBC series covering the history of the English kings and queens going back to the late Roman period. Despite the ridiculously affected speech of narrator David … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Personal reflections, Politics and Economics
Tagged BBC, Ben Bernanke, David Starkey, England, Henry II, history, inflation, Lew Rockwell, Monarchy, Paul Krugman
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“Rust and Bone”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This movie might have been something had director Jacques Audiard bothered to give it a shape and some conciseness. I love Marion Cotillard; she reminds me a bit of Nadia Sibirskaia, though there’s a smidge of … Continue reading
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Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Listen, I’m the last guy to complain about a statue of RoboCop, but isn’t it kind of amusing that Detroit — the postercity for fuckupitude — is getting such a monument? While the city crumbles to … Continue reading
Posted in Linkathons, Movies, Politics and Economics, Science, Sex
Tagged Detroit, John F. Kennedy, juggalos, racism, RoboCop
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Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I got a kick out of this Steve Sailer piece on the Niall Ferguson-John Maynard Keynes controversy. Hoping to eventually pick up this new release from TASCHEN. I love TASCHEN. I just wish I wasn’t too much of … Continue reading
Arthouse Movie Posters
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Movie culture is pretty much dead now, isn’t it? Sure, it’s possible to whip up some decent arguments to the contrary. But for all intents and purposes movies are no longer significant drivers of culture. Frankly, when a … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial art, Movies
Tagged arthouse, Criterion Collection, Federico Fellini, Film, Hulu+, Ingmar Bergman, Movie Posters, movies, Pauline Kael, San Diego
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