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9 March 2010
Fishing with John: Tom Waits (1991)
John and Tom go fishing in Jamaica for snapper. There are long periods of waiting before either of the men gets a bite. Tom finally catches a fish. Upon catching the fish, the men discuss catch and release, and Tom decides to put the fish into his pants. It is unclear whether this is what [...]
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8 March 2010
Fishing with John: Jim Jarmusch (1991)
The first episode of Fishing with John is by far the best. You are simply not prepared for the interplay between the fishers and the narrative (Oh. My. God.), particularly given the whole tone of the fishing sequences is correct, minus the fisherman. They have quiet, introspect conversation while fishing. Jim and John are fishing [...]
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27 July 2009
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Okay – so more or else an epic failure on the bear story. I’m still writing it, but the regular posting of it made me stop writing until I stopped posting. This is obviously reflective of a host of neuroses that are more or less less interesting than Mad-Libs. And so, in the words of [...]
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5 January 2009
Chungking Express (1994)
In my mind, I always get Chungking Express confused with Wong Kar-Wai’s other movie Fallen Angels. I guess it’s a cops and guns kind of conflation, but it doesn’t really matter. Having watched Chungking Express, I am now sure I’d only seen the expired pineapple sequence, having somehow missed entirely Tony Leung’s segment or just [...]
