Category Archives: Movies
love language
Posted by on June 3, 2011
An aspect of 2046 that’s always confounded and fascinated me is how Tony Leung spoke Cantonese while Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi spoke Mandarin. Or really just scenes where two parties in a conversation are speaking to each other in essentially different languages. I have always always wondered why or what the point of it [...]
femme fatale
Posted by on March 1, 2011
“For all her lying, the femme fatale was a truth-teller, a bad woman whose real crime was to introduce a man to his own innate badness.” Loved this. Need to watch every movie on that list, obviously. If you’re a woman who doth protest this, you don’t deserve to be a woman.
If you’re scared…just say you’re scared.
Posted by on April 15, 2010
“I read your column every Sunday when it comes out. I can’t wait for your book to come out” – Brown Sugar aka most quotable movie ever made. After Clueless. BASICALLY, my faggotry in a nutshell. Yes. Defining.
conversatin’
Posted by on March 16, 2009
The New Yorker March 16, 2009 Gilroy interrupted. He reminded the actors that they were no longer facing off. “There should be no hostility,” Gilroy explained to me. They had suffered a reversal, and the effect, for now at least, was to bring them closer together. A second take: Roberts and Owen leaned toward each [...]
