February 2012
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Feb 25th
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“GONE seldom leaves its heroine, and should be commended for trying to illustrate...”
– from my review of GONE for Box Office Magazine. this is the kinda stuff that i have to scribble in my notes to endure those brutal “friday morning specials” (read: films too heinous to screen for critics). i still love you, Seyfried. 
Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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“I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my...”
– Rainer Werner Fassbinder in some ways, WORLD ON A WIRE might represent Fassbinder’s most focused expression of that sentiment, at least to the positive. for more of that “oppressive type of relationship,” methinks MARTHA takes the cake.
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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“Learn to love solitude – to be more alone with yourselves. The problem with...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky what he said. this quote jumped out at me after coming home from a screening of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s beautiful new film I WISH, in which there are at least 5 little kids after whom i should pretty much remodel my entire worldview. more on that one tomorrow.
Feb 20th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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“[The Criterion Collection] was really clear with me. They definitely said this...”
– Lena Dunham on Criterion’s controversial decision to release her feature, TINY FURNITURE (out today on DVD & Blu-ray).  Quote snagged from Dunham’s great new Indiewire interview.
Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 13th
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“i literally and carnally love [TINY FURNITURE writer / director / star Lena...”
– YouTube commenter AndreSpereyda. it’s currently the only comment attached to this Press Pause Play video interview of Lena Dunham. i plan on writing quite a bit about Dunham / Tiny Furniture this week (both a review of Criterion’s new DVD & Blu-ray of the film, as well as an essay...
Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 12th
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“Pocket calculators encourage children to think that they have all the answers....”
– Metropolitan Life | Fran Lebowitz (via deliberatepace) (and so, the idea for TINY FURNITURE was born).
Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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