New York: it’s a bit full on, isn’t it. Yesterday evening was intended to be crammed with three different events and a meeting, after my 2pm class on Émile Durkheim (whom I hadn’t properly read, which made me feel crappy). In the end, I opted for going straight home with an English film. About an [...]
Archive for the ‘film’ Category
Fish Tank [Andrea Arnold]
Posted in film on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On ‘Black Swan’, this new Aronofsky film with Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman and Vincent Cassel
Posted in film on January 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My gay brother raved about Black Swan. An anarchist friend of mine surprised me by expressing a wish to see it. I had seen a trailer and thought to myself that I would rather not succumb to the cheap appeal of a sexualised feminine Jekyll/Hyde fable that would ultimately vindicate some proto-fascist womanly ideal or [...]
(reminiscence from April -) a friend and a film lead from Wolverhampton
Posted in film, travel on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Brief notes from Wolverhampton, whither I now seem to journey, occasionally, and which looks like this: to visit the wonderful R, who looks like this (ie likeWilliam Hazlitt): In Wolverhampton there is a café with pictures of golliwogs on its walls. The waitresses are all very old, and painstakingly write down “2 glasses of water” on [...]
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER vs. LA GRANDE BOUFFE
Posted in film on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s an unmistakeable, wonderful music of doom that introduces us to Le Hollandais. A naked body, shit-besmeared, is being beaten in a deserted car-lot. We walk in past him with the camera, to the baying of dogs. Peter Greenaway ushers in each chapter of this gastronomical nightmare with an elegant 5***** menu. Part burlesque, part [...]
[FILM CRITIQUE] ROMEO AND JULIET : : : LUHRMANN, ZEFFIRELLI, AND THE ANTI-CAPITALIST REVOLUTION
Posted in film, literature/critique on May 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
What ‘Romeo and Juliet’ meant to the 20th century was defined in many ways by Franco Zeffirelli: indeed, Celia Daileader thinks that “everything good and anything bad about Shakespeare on film can be blamed on him”. The “unwritten words” of the now immortal story have always been there – it is not “written”, for instance, [...]
Sophie’s Twitter Feed
- Those speculating were huddled by the auctioneer's desk trying to haggle over crisis-stricken families' houses amid the beautiful din #o4o ~ 2 weeks ago
- Waiting now for nine arrestees at today's o4o sing-along-auction-blockade to be released at (cont) http://t.co/6gl6SUiL ~ 2 weeks ago
- #o4o action in Brooklyn Supreme Court kicked off just now, to resist banks' foreclosing on people's (cont) http://t.co/80aPmWLO ~ 2 weeks ago
Archive from lasophielle
What're you interested in?
dates of scribblings
April 2012 M T W T F S S « Feb 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 lasophielle
