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A Glass Darkly
Thursday June 19, 2008
We’re all astronauts, encapsulated voyagers peering out through windshields at the vast, perilous universe beyond. From these places inside our heads, we steer our ships, sending out probes as necessary. The command center seems far away from the engines and manifolds, a mind/body dissociation....
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Blood and Oil
Wednesday June 18, 2008
I didn’t see Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood until it came out on DVD, and now I can’t get the images out of my mind—a sure sign the movie’s gotten under my skin. Much has been written already about the film....
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Resurrection
Tuesday June 17, 2008
Working on human trafficking issues, I peruse several news articles each day pondering the age-old questions of prostitution: who, if anyone, suffers from a commercial sexual transaction? Is legalization of prostitution inherently pro-woman, or....
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Hunger for the World
Monday June 16, 2008
Patricia Hampl notes that successful memoir evidences a “hunger for the world,” yearning which “expands beyond its subject...into the endless and tragic recollection that is history.”
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How Can We Make Jean-Luc Godard Happy Again?
Friday June 13, 2008
The concluding thoughts in Bradford’s recent post about the early temple-like status of the movie theater, and the religious nature of cinephilia (“Finding Real Religion,”), struck me, when I first read them, as both true and wrong....
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