February 2012
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Feb 9th
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“Atop a raw rock he sat the horse and studied the country. The flooded saltflats...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
Feb 7th
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“He ate his lunch at noon in an outcropping of lava rock with a view across the...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
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January 2012
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“The difference between approaching themes in art and in genre is a matter of...”
– David Cronenberg, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
Jan 31st
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“It’s dangerous to be an artist. That’s what we talk about in Naked Lunch — and...”
– David Cronenberg, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
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Modern Maturity: In Deeper Into Movies, you described movies as a “supremely pleasurable and dangerous art form. “I get the pleasurable part, but what’s so dangerous?
Pauline Kael: At a movie house, you feel alone with the image and you’re affected deeply. The different elements that go into movies—music, cinematography, actors, design—get to you very strongly. That’s why so many educated people disapprove of movies; they’re not used to giving themselves over to that much emotion. They prefer the distance they can keep in legitimate theater.
MM: Is that why so-called intellectuals often prefer European films?
Kael: Yes, and they associate greatness with foreign films. We tend to think of art as European; there’s an embarrassment about art in America. But The Godfather changed that for a lot of people. When The Godfather II came out and you got the full dimensions of that family, you had a hard time not using the word “great.” Still, I think educated people feel more at home with Czech and Australian films full of humane little lessons.
MM: You dislike humane little lessons?
Kael: Lessons are for television movies about homosexuality or somebody’s sickness; that’s why they’re so boring.
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October 2011
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August 2011
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“Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit...”
– James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime
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July 2011
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“If that’s holiday as in “utterly removed from any sense of immediate...”
– William Gibson, The best holiday reads | Books | The Guardian
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May 2011
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“Oh, I don’t want introspection. I don’t like to look at myself. (Why?) I’ve...”
– Werner Herzog, em entrevista à GQ. (via ranchocarne)
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