Articles in Culture and Criticism
I read about Leo Lerman’s journals in The New Yorker, I think.
Do you have a crazy long waist, and like the optical illusion of a higher and smaller one?
Terrence Malick’s storytelling style is so valuable; it creates so many opportunities and points of view. It opens things up. But it opens itself up to parody so easily, and it’s difficult for any other …
Woody Grant (Bruce Dern), a disheveled and mulishly taciturn alcoholic, is determined to get from Billings, MT to Lincoln, NE to collect the magazine sweepstakes he’s sure he’s won.
Movies’ understanding of “working class” or “poor” interiors doesn’t work; it’s distracting. I’m talking about the physical design of the homes, the tables and couches. The implication is that the character or family in question …
Augh! I love Breton; I love Town House; I just had Club Crackers with my red-pepper soup at lunch!
Wait, I was wrong, Cheez-Its and Goldfish aficionados — those aren’t the indistinguishable two, it’s Cheez-Its and Cheese Nips that are carbon cracker copies of one another.
Ohhhhh God. I just…where do I…why? God. This is impossible! And this isn’t even the hardest one!
