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Spirits in a Material World, Part 1
Wednesday January 6, 2010
Lately I've been meditating on how incomplete my skill set is as a nonfiction writer. One skill in particular is interviewing. I've only done a few in my career and reading those again I realize how much more they were about me, rather than the subjects....
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Strongest Impressions: Memorable Movies of 2009, Pt. 3
Tuesday January 5, 2010
10. Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze): I discussed this film in a previous Good Letters post. It still haunts me, like a sad and wonderful dream. I’m grateful that Spike Jonze showed so much respect to Maurice Sendak’s artwork, and that screenwriter Dave Eggers adapted Sendak’s simple story into something so mysterious, melancholy, and meaningful....
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Strongest Impressions: Memorable Movies of 2009, Pt. 2
Monday January 4, 2010
20. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams): Reinventing Star Trek, J. J. Abrams proves that he knows how to build an adventure movie that will last. What is more, he knows why the Star Trek films have always seemed disposable. You can serve up standard-setting digital animation, but if you lack....
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Strongest Impressions: Memorable Movies of 2009, Pt. 1
Friday January 1, 2010
“Disappointing.” That’s a word I’ve read in several critical summations of 2009’s movies. And there were a lot of stinkers out there—films made by committees trying to recreate What Worked Before. For me, 2009 served up a feast so rewarding that it’s tough to choose highlights....
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Last Things
Thursday December 31, 2009
Throughout the screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the boy, who is one of the two protagonists of the story, thinks he hears or sees a dog. His father, the other protagonist, tells him he is wrong. The world as the man has known it—as the boy has never known it—has come....
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