October 2011
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“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the...”
– “The Dead,” Dubliners, James Joyce
The most beautiful last sentence of any English short story, in my humble opinion.
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Matt Smith says next season is his last season →
What? Didn’t he just start?
So does that mean I can break out my “BRING BACK TEN” banner or
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“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they...”
– Vincent van Gogh (via myquotelibrary)
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Status update
I’ve been working on my senior essay for 12 straight hours.
I am working off from 1,500 pages of text and 9 films with the total running time of 18 hours.
I have currently written 7,000 words in 24 pages.
I have to write 6 more and edit the entire paper.
My deadline is in 12 hours.
I have never read, watched, written, and produced so much content in my life.
Onwards! Allons-y!
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“To begin, to begin. How to start? I’m hungry. I should get coffee. Coffee...”
– Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation (2002)
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) is...
… actually one of the worst films I’ve ever seen.
I can’t wrap my mind around how Coppola completely bastardized the text with the Count’s gag-inducing romance. Also, I just hate the campy stylization. And the awful, screeching score. And the character assassination of Mina, Lucy, Van Helsing, Seward, etc. And the laughable CGI and animation. And the God-awful acting.
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Letter to the Editor
timemagazine:
Sir:
It has come to my attention that in your Current & Choice section, Lauren Bacall has consistently been left out of the cast of Key Largo.
Inasmuch as there are those of us in Hollywood, Miss Bacall among them, who would rather make Current & Choice than win an Academy Award or make Men of Distinction, won’t you please include her in the cast of Key Largo in Current...
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Watching Frankenstein (1994)
I don’t understand why Kenneth Branagh has to be shirtless for half the film.
But I’m not really complaining.
Definitely the most faithful adaptation of the text, in my opinion. It’s a bit on the grotesque side, but it has some gorgeous visuals too (and no, I’m not referring just to the above picture).
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) - Dir. Kenneth Branagh
“Someone had left her a sealed envelope with “Congratulations” written on the...”
– Profile of Jill Abramson, the New York Times’ first woman Executive Editor, via The New Yorker (via somethingchanged)
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