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Netflix Diary: Age of Innocence
We watched the Martin Scorsese film adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence last night on Netflix, the one with Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer, mostly because, crab about it as I do,...
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Netflix Diary: Broadway Damage
I have a five-minute test when it comes to indie gay romantic comedies. If the acting is so wooden, or the set-up is so silly, or if the damned queens give me so much gas, that I can’t get past that...
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Netflix Diary: The Naked Civil Servant
Quentin Crisp was born in Surrey, England in 1908, only 13 years after Oscar Wilde’s trial and conviction for sodomy. Wilde’s trial served to simultaneously publicize the existence of the homosexual...
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Netflix Diary: Man Push Cart
Spoiler alert. Man Push Cart is as bleak a portrait of life in New York City as they come. It’s about a former Pakistani rock star who moves to New York, only to lose everything, everything,...
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Netflix Diary: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Casey Affleck (who plays The Coward Robert Ford) is the real star of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, despite Brad...
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‘Following’ by Christopher Nolan, Shot by Shot: One
Note: timestamps are keyed to the Netflix streaming presentation of this film. I have chosen (and I am aware that this choice itself is an act of interpretation, blah blah blah) to ignore the various...
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‘Following’ by Christopher Nolan, Shot by Shot: Ten
00:01:22 – 00:01:23 More picking up of stuff! Pick, pick, pick. Up, up, up. This is interminable! It’s been months now since that box was opened! We’re almost a full minute and a half in! I mean, come...
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‘Following’ by Christopher Nolan, Shot by Shot: Twelve
00:01:25 – 00:01:28 The most interesting thing about this shot is not contained within the shot itself. The most interesting thing about this shot is the transition between this shot and the one...
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‘Following’ by Christopher Nolan, Shot by Shot: Fourteen
00:01:29 – 00:01:30 The jewelry box gets shut by the hands. I make out the seahorse in there, on a pile of the other stuff, as the lid goes down. The music simultaneously squirts to a squirty...
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Dear Netflix [updated][updated again]
Posted this on their wall; it was deleted less than one second later. They are aware of these messages! Keep them up. Dear Netflix: your corporate position that a woman who participates in public...
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