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... the funniest one of the bunch. And there’s Zeppo as Bob, the hapless straight man. Of course there's a plot, sin ce movies are supposed to have those, but really, what difference does it make? This movie ...
... The author—a woman approaching thirty—goes on to describe (in ecstatic prose) a fake wedding weekend. Social commentary by post-college twentysomethings in New Orleans? No: “It was a sin cere effort to ...
... lost my street cred by usin g the verb “dabbling” to describe what Glover is doing, but growing up in Iowa it isn't like I had much of it to begin with. Which puts me in good company as many question Glover’s ...
... and its pursuit of one of humanity’s familiar questions – What is my purpose? Actually, Scorcese uses the sub-plot of a broken automaton (a weird and somewhat creepy clock-like-person-of-sorts) with missin g ...
... sin gle (although divorced), still aging in England, still confused as hell about himself and reality itself.
As Tony reflects on his life in The Sense of an Ending, he realizes time is not as static ...
... to be moving away from descriptive, knowledge-based advertisin g towards a creative experience, bordering on music videos. Apple should get a fair amount of credit for this trend, but it’s not magic…it’s ...
... sounds downright old-fashioned when discussin g ideas like morality, absolute truth, or universality. He laughs off postmodern ideas of perception (if there’s a tiger in the bathroom, I would like to know ...
... across the plate for the first time with a bat hopelessly chasin g it, the game was changed forever.
Martin’s curveball was not the fastest, craziest, most unpredictable pitch ever thrown. Others have ...
... plot spoilers, but you really should have seen all those movies by now.) My vote goes for something much older and surprisin gly tender. I’ll put the end of Charlie Chaplin’s film, City Lights, up against ...
When does advertisin g become art?
Each weekday morning I pass a tree that gives me pause. It is an old maple, thick in branch and deep in root – its limbs extend across a street that probably ...
... of creativity in usin g that new technology. When new things are created to make art easier to produce it doesn't mean that art is dead. Art isn't just about the skill it takes to record a track or paint ...
What is love? Better yet, where is it? For better or worse, there is a predominant standard in feature films. They are typically anywhere from 80 to 120 minutes in length and revolve around a sin gular ...
... believe that ever sin ce the fall, man’s condition is such that neither around him nor within him can he perceive anything, except in the form of agony”), but that pain might actually force us to stumble ...
... like Radnor has simplified the complexity of young adulthood to simply chasin g after the next relationship. But he dodges that mistake by daring to articulate a reality about the true nature of love: the ...
... days of slavery, and attitudes had changed surprisin gly little sin ce the Emancipation Proclamation a century before. Blacks were falling victim to the habitual reduction of people to property.
Wendell ...
... dream up. Betty, a sin gle mother, is so overweight that she is confined to her home and her children worry about keeping the floor from collapsin g underneath her. Arnie, the family’s rallying figure, is ...
A noose for the news? Unsurprisin gly, the headquarters of our nation’s third most read newspaper, the New York Times, is a tense place. Yet the tensions represented in the recent documentary Page One: ...
The Tree of Life resurrects the era when Hollywood still aspired to greatness. Not sin ce 2001: A Space Odyssey (or less successfully, The Fountain) has a filmmaker attempted to capture both the origins ...
... A chair that sets the stage for an unplanned (teenage) pregnancy.
If we were guessin g (and we are), you’ve probably already seen Juno. If we were to speculate further, we’d presume you enjoyed it. The ...
... Oscars for their roles) play husband and wife in this film chronicling what happens in the life of Ted Kramer, a risin g advertisin g executive and his young son Billy after their wife/mom leave. It’s a ...
... long. The good news is that sin ce it was originally a TV miniseries it has four parts (or acts), so it is easy to split into four 1:30 chunks. Other good news is that it is currently available to “Watch ...
... into an unlikely relationship with a run-away teenager, a drug addicted sin gle mother, and a grandfather with dementia. So, here’s the question. Why are we so drawn to dysfunctional families? In the last ...
... sure, one would find kaleidoscopes of colors, vibrant and verdant foliage, and plenty of playfulness - bashful, furry creatures sin ging three and four and five-part harmonies, voices cascading and echoing ...
... dream I was in - one about Inception, which I had seen the night before. The dream was not about the movie itself per say, but about the post-film processin g experience. While walking out of the theater ...
Do you remember what you were doing on January 8, 2010?
Chances are you probably don't. Unless, that is, you are one of the 3,600 people who live in the small town of Inuvik in the Northwest Territories ...
... through community (“It is not good for man to be alone” can be stated as “It is good for man to be with others”). I have been convicted of this ever sin ce seeing Christopher McCandless’ tragedy, dying ...
I remember first learning about Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in junior year English class. I hadn’t thought much about it sin ce, until a friend introduced me to the music video for Yael Naim’s song, New ...
... film, Call + Response: Exposin g the world's 27 million most terrifying secrets. There are more slaves today than ever before in human history. There are 1 million people trafficked in the United States ...
... Stockman, author of Walk On—arguably the definitive book on U2—tell a group at Calvin College that Bono and The Edge can soon step aside because a new band that is risin g in the UK is here, I felt I had ...
... give an example of fighting injustice with creativity. Instead of throwing rocks they throw ridiculous presentations at large corporate gathers posin g as representatives of large (unjust) corporate entities. ...
... the evangelical notion of "Bearing Witness", Bazan sin gs:
"When the gap between what I hoped would be and what is makes me weep for my kids. I take a cleansin g breath and make a positive confession, ...
... mantra sin ce the inception of rednoW to simply point others to experiences of wonder. These two lists (music, film) are attempting to do nothing else. Films Few things cultivate wonder in us more than ...
... our mantra sin ce the inception of rednoW to simply point others to experiences of wonder. These two lists (music, film) are attempting to do nothing else.
Albums
Music has always possessed a certain ...
... with Drew Barrymore. Brian has had a lifelong crush on Drew ever sin ce seeing her in E.T. Although, the documentary might justifiably re-label “crush” as “obsession,” he is none-the-less determined to ...
... experience. So, what are we proposin g? Join us in 2010. For the upcoming year, we are inviting you to delve "into the dark" with us - a project inspired by rednoW's de facto sage Craig Detweiler - and ...
... poor, black, death-row inmate he had improperly prosecuted. But it is quite evident that Paul Fitzgerald (who wrote, directed, and starred in the film) is pressin g deeper than the issues of capital punishment, ...
I have heard it said that a sacrifice it is not a sacrifice if it does not hurt. If you are not losin g something in the act of sacrifice, if you do not feel it, then you are probably not making a sacrifice. ...
What Apple product do you first remember seeing? Or usin g? Was it a MacBook? An iPhone? What is it about Apple that makes its products so appealing, so memorable, so desirable? What is it about Apple's ...
When my son loaded up in his cousin ’s little powered Jeep and started driving around their lawn he declared to all listening, “We're cruisin g the dunes to Tiki Beach!”
No one knew what he was talking ...
... of beautiful truths, that eventually had the effect of completely unraveling the powerful curse put on me by you." But after years of being told humanity's sin ful nature is responsible for the damnation ...
... he is (ultimately) the one to blame - an assertion that stands contrary to the dominant view of "original sin ".
But in many ways, Bazan is simply recognizing his true convictions - that his biblical ...
... countless citizens continue to be oppressed, displaced, and/or killed as a result of an internal war that has been forefront sin ce 1998. But you do not have to delve too far into this film to realize this ...
The difficult part of writing on, or discussin g, a meaningful experience is that we run the risk of diminishing what was more amazing for us than we can attempt to match with the words at our disposal. ...
... Julia Child (Meryl Streep) going from American housewife to cooking legend. Ping-ponging back and forth between the two women’s stories, the film shows the similar paths their lives took as well as exposin g ...
... most of us probably missed. Entry into the world of those who didn't miss this anniversary is one of the surprises of Helvetica. This is a world of designers and typesetters, of art and advertisin g. ...
... Call) has grown increasin gly controversial (at least in the circles where Caedmon's Call traveled) writing scathing songs about the marriage of Christianity and the Republican party, the marriage of Christianity ...
The tension surrounding the immigration debate has been the launching point for many filmmakers in recent years. Film such as In America, In Between Days, Fast Food Nation and the recently released Sin ...
... Kingdom of Rust is another fine example of Doves ability to blend rock and the human experience. The title track and first sin gle, "Kingdom of Rust" demands several listens. Tapping into the innate search ...
... with how knowledge is created. In Expelled:No Intelligence Allowed, we are taken on an exploratory ride into the wonderful academic jungle of power and knowledge, usin g the Intelligent Design theory as ...
... We'll let you know where we are grabing beers after the shows if you want to come and talk about what is going down.
Thoughts From Thursday: *Craig Finn (the lead sin ger of the Hold Steady) led ...
