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The Last Stage
When Wanda Jakubowska entered the gates of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau as a political prisoner of the Nazis, she seized upon a goal that may have kept her alive in the months and years to...
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Shattering the Screen: a conversation with Andy Burns, author of Pop...
We are living through a golden age for Twin Peaks fans, despite recent concerns about a snag in the new Twin Peaks (my take: rest easy, neither Showtime nor David Lynch wants to lose this opportunity)....
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Carcosa
A visual tribute to the climax of True Detective (2014). . . My viewing diary for this series will begin on April 15.
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My Adventures in Television: I begin a Wednesday tradition
From now on, Wednesdays will be devoted to entries in my "viewing diaries" for various TV series - most of which I will be watching for the first timeAs we slip further into the twenty-first century,...
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Interview with Kevin B. Lee appears on Sunday, Apr. 12
On Sunday, my interview with Kevin B. Lee will begin posting in 3 parts. For now this post is up as a placeholder (because the full interview went up this morning and I don't want to lose the link for...
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The Twin Peaks Crisis (including Obnoxious & Anonymous podcast)
My interview with Kevin B. Lee, video essayist, was announced on Twitter but will actually go up next week, in three parts.Well, by now I'm sure you've heard the news. Twin Peaks is now without David...
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This Cherry Pie is a Miracle! (Twin Peaks at 25)
This was written before the weekend's news, but feels more relevant than ever. We could certainly use a miracle now. I think we'll get one.David Lynch's and Mark Frost's TV show Twin Peaks premiered...
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The Voice of the Video Essay: conversation with Kevin B. Lee (Part 2 of 3) on...
Part 1 of this interview covers Kevin's award-winning video essay Transformers: The Premake. There are many ways to design, and many ways to watch, a video essay. In the following discussion, Kevin and...
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The Polemic as Poem: conversation with Kevin B. Lee (Part 3 of 3) on the...
Part 1 of this interview covers Kevin's award-winning video essay Transformers: The Premake while Part 2 covers the aesthetics of making - and watching - video essay.In the final installment of my...
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True Detective: the viewing diary
As the viewing diary unfolds, this post will be updated as a directory for all episodesNext week I begin my first TV viewing diary for Lost in the Movies, an episode-by-episode reaction to True...
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L'Amour Fou
Jacques Rivette's work is unusual because it evokes the uncanny by slightly skewing ordinary reality. Rather than emphasizing surreal, disorienting imagery, his scenes usually play out at a leisurely...
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True Detective episode 1: "The Long Bright Dark"
The following is a viewing diary I wrote as I watched the show for the first time, pausing after each episode to collect my thoughts. As such, it is spoiler-free for upcoming episodes (although the...
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What Does She See? (Asuka and her Angel)
A shot-by-shot breakdown of Asuka's meltdown in Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 22: "Don't Be."Why am I crying?I already decided I wouldn't cry anymore.What's the matter, Asuka?It's a present from your...
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True Detective episode 2: "Seeing Things"
The following is a viewing diary I wrote as I watched the show for the first time, pausing after each episode to collect my thoughts. As such, it is spoiler-free for upcoming episodes (although the...
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Film as Film, and what is film? (a status update in the form of rambling...
Three and a half years ago, I recorded some of my frustrations with writing about and watching movies. In Vertigo, Vertigo Variations, and Watching Movies While Blogging, I wrote about "a disengagement...
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True Detective episode 3: "The Locked Room"
The following is a viewing diary I wrote as I watched the show for the first time, pausing after each episode to collect my thoughts. As such, it is spoiler-free for upcoming episodes (although the...
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Manufacturing Dreams in Street of Crocodiles (video essay)
Last week my first video essay for Fandor was posted. From now on I will be contributing videos regularly to the site, probably in addition to videos for my own YouTube and Vimeo channels. So after the...
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True Detective episode 4: "Who Goes There"
The following is a viewing diary I wrote as I watched the show for the first time, pausing after each episode to collect my thoughts. As such, it is spoiler-free for upcoming episodes (although the...
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Welcome (Back) to Twin Peaks: some thoughts on David Lynch's departure...and...
Every month, I will be offering one post on Twin Peaks...up until Showtime re-airs the original series. Then I will post extensive coverage of each episode (mixing new reactions with my many older...
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True Detective episode 5: "The Secret Fate of All Life"
The following is a viewing diary I wrote as I watched the show for the first time, pausing after each episode to collect my thoughts. As such, it is spoiler-free for upcoming episodes (although the...
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