1. "Eric Rohmer - father of the New Wave": Kaleem Aftab interviews my favorite New Waver. (Hattip: GreenCine)
["Knocking on the door of Rohmer's office in a Paris apartment building, I hardly know what to expect, having been granted the interview on the proviso that it could be cancelled if the film-maker's ill health demanded. I need not have worried. Despite being gaunt and having skeletal features, he is in good health. Sporting a cravat and a blue pullover, he looks the archetypal French artist. He ushers me into his main office-space. The detritus of more than six decades of work seems to be dispersed everywhere. Folders, books, papers and journals are crammed on every surface, except the chairs where we station ourselves either side of his small wooden desk, positioned far from the window of the oblong room."]
2. "New Directors/New Films Brings the New Class": We'll take Nathan any way we can get him. His coverage (for the decidedly non-Vox populi Village Voice) of the New Directors/New Films series. Related: A discussion is brewing about the latest buyouts/layoffs at Dave Kehr's blog.
["Once again, New Directors/New Films, "the premiere festival for works that break or recast the cinematic mold," if they do say so themselves, "handpicked" by a team of curators from the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. There is, as ever, much old hat, plenty of promise, and one or two outright sensations, though in the case of this unusually strong 37th edition, that number climbs up to three or four. My pick of the pick favors a pair of defiantly queer debuts positing genuine new directions/new cinemas."]
3. "Giant Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses": From National Geographic -- more writing on the wall.
["New satellite images reveal what scientists call the "runaway" collapse of an enormous ice shelf in Antarctica as the result of global warming. The chunk of coastal ice was some 160 square miles (415 square kilometers) in area—about seven times the size of Manhattan."]
4. Belated birthday wishes to Ms. Crawford: The Self-Styled Siren and Sheila O'Malley celebrate.
["This renewed interest is good news for those of us who love Joan, who find great pleasure in her movies and don't want to hear about the goddamn wire hangers anymore."]
5. "Hey!": Gimme back my nuts! (One step closer to Idiocracy, ay Vadim? Oh wait... two steps closer: "Demi Moore turns to leeches for good health")
["Tens of thousands of vehicles—or vee-hick-uls in this case—across this great land are sporting low-hanging, lifelike bull testicles in all the colors of the rainbow from their rear hitches. There are brass ones and rubber ones and chrome ones. They come in small, medium and "monster." (For you discreet drivers trying to blend in, they even come in "camo.") Some of them light up. The numerous Web sites that sell these things insist they're incredibly "lifelike." But if your family bull is lighting up down there, it might be time to bring him on in to the vet."]
Quote of the Day: Ludwig Wittgenstein
(One of twenty quotations provided by House contributor Ryland Walker Knight in a recent post at his blog Vinyl is Heavy.)
Image of the Day (click to enlarge): Lead image to the Defamer story "The Filipino Prison Peeps Perform 'Thriller'".
Clip of the Day: "Recovering Reality: A Conversation with Errol Morris" for the Columbia Journalism Review. (Hattip: Kevin Seaman)
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Links for the Day (March 26th, 2008)
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I always wondered whatever happened to that old preacher guy from Poltergeist II...
I am reminded of a line that Arthur C Clarke quotes in one of his books. I searched for it online, and found it in an essay of his:
Global warming is another area where politicians cannot be blamed for being confused. Although most scientists agree that warming is occurring, some, such as Fred Singer, who headed the U.S. meteorological satellite program, do not. We may need global warming, after all, as the current interglacial period draws to a close. As Will Durant said many years ago, " Civilization is an interlude between ice ages." (Will and Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization, vol. 1 [Simon and Schuster, New York, 1935]). If this is true, the cry in the next millennium may be "Spare that old power station--we need more CO 2!
For the rest of the article, see here.
I think it would be really cool to hang out with Errol Morris. Not like at some formal event, but hang out. Like dinner at your home or even grocery shopping. You'd never get out of the store and you wouldn't want to.
RE: #5
I live in Texas. The truck nuts are rampant down here and have been for quite some time. Surely a swinging cock [available in various lengths, girths and colors] can't be far behind.
Still, it's noteworthy (at best) that Newsweek can bothered to care. Well, that or it's a slow...news week.
There's two cool things I can point to off the bat with that Wittgenstein quote:
1. His claim is spatial, not temporal.
2. It comes at the end of the first section of the _Investigations_, which runs 693 sections long.
Sly dude. (Thanks for the link. There are some goodies in there, I think.)
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