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― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 January 2022 12:55 (two years ago) link
More than bumpy, no brakes. Plane knocked over an outhouse. Two men were out cold.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 January 2022 13:22 (two years ago) link
Finished David Thomson's How to Watch a Movie. Really liked it--the title's a come-on, it just wanders around and doesn't really try to guide you about anything (thankfully), and even though I wasn't always sure what point Thomson was trying to make at any given moment, I liked the mix of personal anecdote and unanswerable (meta-) questions, and the mix of films suited me fine.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 00:21 (two years ago) link
I wonder if he's got ghost writers or grad students. No way this guy has been so prolific the last three years. No detracting from quality: I read Sleeping With Strangers in 2020 and shared excerpts with students then.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
Three books in three years, 200-300 pages each, two published during a pandemic, doesn't seem that far-fetched to me. Some people rhyme slow, some people rhyme quick.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 00:35 (two years ago) link
Also, the way David Thomson watches a movie is to frenziedly masturbate every time Nicole Kidman appears on screen, and you probably don't need a whole book telling you how to do that.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 05:53 (two years ago) link
I love my DT books but this is v true
― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 08:06 (two years ago) link
there's a good bit in a rosenbaum review of the dyer stalker and mars-jones ozu books where he is taken aback that both writers seem to regard thomson as an unquestionable expert
― devvvine, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 08:24 (two years ago) link
That's because both of them don't know much about film and are weak critics but were indulged by their publishers.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 08:38 (two years ago) link
Dyer's Stalker book works because he isn't a film critic.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 10:34 (two years ago) link