In medias res

Let me preface this by saying how much I rock the typing-in-the-dark scene.
I missed seeing Caramel when it was at Living Room Theaters months ago. Based on the past couple of hours, it wasn’t a devastating loss. But it was also a good evening filler/placeholder for some day when I have better things to do.
Since [...]

This is a wonderful film, too. Wong Kar-Wai is a great director, and his films are always a feast for the eyes and ears. But this particular film has a far-beyond-ordinary soundtrack. I actually paused the film and ordered the soundtrack from Amazon when track 5 began to play.
For the uninitiated, Wong Kar-Wai is [...]

Zbigniew Preisner composed the scores for Krzysztof Kieslowski’s films.
If you are familiar with Kieslowski and have never looked into the origin of the scores, this is significant information.
Preisner’s contribution includes and is not limited to the music attributed to Van den Budenmayer, a Dutch composer, invented by Kieslowski and Preisner, who is featured in a [...]

I’m watching Brief Encounter and have stopped midway. The fainting, hysterical representation of women is a real impediment to my full enjoyment of this 1945 classic. Then again, if I were a housewife and had nothing else to look forward to besides cooking, mending, and child-rearing, I might swoon on occasion as well.
Who am I [...]

I’ve been watching a couple of Kieslowski’s cycles of films lately with F, beginning with Trois couleurs in March and then The Decalogue throughout April. Of the Three Colors trilogy, I find myself consistently torn between Blue and Red, as White is to this trilogy what Temple of Doom is to the Indiana Jones [...]

Memorial Day weekend. What can I say? I drove too much, which caused some problems walking for a few days, but the rest ultimately did me good. Back in the cube farm now; somehow, I am supposed to fit some 15 hours of meetings into this 32-hour work week and still get things done. This [...]

This afternoon I have an interview for another job, so that makes it more bearable. HOWEVER. Last night I realized that the macho pendejo who works for another manager and sexually harasses coworkers and pressures clients to trade services for sexual favors–and of course is not fired because he works for this really shitty organization–will [...]

After finally seeing XXY last night, I sat myself down to write a review. It turned more academic than I expected, and since there’s something of a certainty that a nice scholarly review would either be plagiarized by a lazy-ass undergrad or published by a lazy-ass future grad student (me), thus outing her “anon” blog, [...]