Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Red Rum

 


 

"RedRum"

 

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Monday, July 31, 2023

The Whale


 

 



I just viewed the film "The Whale" with Brendan Fraser. Great movie. It covers all the major points about the slow-rolling suicide that is abusive eating - lack of mobility - physical pain - precarious health - shame - food as a coping sedative - food as celebratory reward - the absolute and self-righteous disgust that slenders have for fat people - the hopelessness - the isolation. 

It's also a movie about compassion, generosity, and tenderness. 

Brendan Fraser is so very good in this movie. 
 
It took me a while to get around to watch "The Whale." It always felt too close to the bone. For instance, my dead dog Tie, who speaks to me every day, has called me "The Whale" and Fat Boy for years now. Tie reminds me quite a few times a week that he never (ever) had a "weight problem" and that he had a very trim stomach his entire life. He always says that I could be like him if I had an ounce of virtue or willpower.. And so - I put off seeing the film since it seemed like it would be rubbing my face in a lifetime of failure.. 

It wasn't like that though.. It was, in an unexpected way, a vindicating experience - to see what I see every day rendered with such dead-on-balls-accuracy..
 



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Sunday, February 12, 2023

The Banshees of Inisherin

 

 

 

"The Banshees of Inisherin" is a movie on Netflix. It is a beautifully acted film about the inevitable results of dealing with others out of an angry mind:

“By doing this you are like a man who wants to hit another and picks up a burning ember or excrement in his hand and so first burns himself or makes himself stink.”

~ Buddhaghosa - 5th Century C.E. ~

At times very (very) funny, at times very (very) dark, "The Banshees of Inisherin" was a film that reminded me of my family of origin - especially of Dear Old Da - who invested so much energy into shunning when he felt upended by his children. His life's example, his decades-long teachings on conditional love, are things I still need to guard against in my own behavior even all these years later.





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Friday, December 23, 2022

Christmas Movies

 

Parker River Wildlife Refuge 

 

Parker River Wildlife Refuge 

 

Bend 
 
 
 
Triptych - "If You Knew The Date of Your Ending, What Would Change?"
 
 
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Time for some Christmas movies. Recently it
was "Black Robe" - about Jesuit hubris and ignorance (a
deadly combination) in the 17th Century. Next was
Scorcese's "Silence" - again about Jesuit
hubris and ignorance during their
ill-fated missionary work in
Japan. Silence is also
a meditation on the
silence of God
in the face
of great
suffering.
 
Then there will be Of Gods and Men. This film is not
about Jesuit ignorance and hubris. Instead it's
about a community of Trappist monks that
live among a Muslim community in
Algiers. It's a lovely film and 
one I dearly wish more 
Christians would see
and take to heart.
 
Other titles for Christmas viewing:
 
 
 
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Alien

 

Alien 

 

 

"Alien"

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Stop Motion Mochi


 

 

 

 

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Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Big Plans

 

 

New monopod

 
Yesterday I went for a walk with a friend of mine in his town's graveyard. Just two old dudes strolling around the dead, occasionally stopping to take pictures.. Passing one very impressive burial vault, he asked me if I had my own carcass disposal process and final resting spot picked out. I said "Why yes, yes I do. I want to be burned up and then have whatever remains dumped into the ocean at low tide. No marker. No urn. No perpetual care contract. No nuttin'.

As an example - I'd like something like Donny had (below). A Folger's can would be spot-on. And - if a fight could break out as well - that would be an added bonus... but not strictly necessary.


 

 

 

 

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Sunday, January 9, 2022

I Have Mine Tied Tight

 

 

Glen Magna 

 

 

Well all the time you spend tryin'
to get back what's been took from you,
more is goin' out the door; after a while,
you just have to try to get a tourniquet on it.

 

~ Cousin Ellis - No Country For Old Men ~

 

 

 

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Wednesday, November 17, 2021

House of Pain -



Museum that oxy built


Hey there.

There's a great series on Hulu called Dopesick.
It's about the Sackler family's monstrous drug
OxyContin and their even more monstrous
marketing program that created decades
of misery and death in the United
States and around the world.
The cast is great. 
The acting is excellent.
The story, though, is not for the 
faint of heart.
you can see a trailer..

If you don't have time or dough or interest 
to watch a multi-part series about rich
criminals and drug addiction, may
I propose that you contact the
Harvard Museums and 
join me in my 
suggestion
to them
that they host
a weekly screening 
of the series in the Sackler Museum.
I thought it would be nice to make it free of charge
to the public.. I also suggested that popcorn 
would be a nice touch as well.
I encourage everyone to 
suggest their own
flourishes.

Here's the link to the Harvard
"Contact Us" form - 

https://harvardartmuseums.org/contact-us


Just so you know - not one single solitary
executive from Purdue Pharma 
has gone to prison for 
these crimes.

Not one.




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Sunday, April 4, 2021

Zen For Nothing


 

 

 

 

A pretty film about one year in a Japanese monastery. 

Not for lovers of fast-paced action films with thumping soundtracks..

Great Dharma quotes from Kodo Sawaki Roshi..

Rentable on Amazon Prime. 

 

Email subscribers can see the trailer here

 

 

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Saturday, February 6, 2021

Within Cells Interlinked

 

 

 
 
 "Interlinked Interlinked"

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Baseline Test - Blade Runner 2049
 
Interrogator: What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love?

K: Interlinked.

Interrogator: Do they teach you how to feel finger to finger?

K: Interlinked.

Interrogator: Do you long for having your heart interlinked?

K: Interlinked.

Interrogator: Do you dream about being interlinked?

Interrogator: Have they left a place for you where you can dream?

K: Interlinked.

Interrogator: What's it like to hold your child in your arms?

K: Interlinked.

Interrogator: What's it like to play with your dog?

K: Interlinked.

Interrogator: Do you feel that there's a part of you that's missing?

K: Interlinked.

Interrogator: Do you like to connect to things?

K: Interlinked.

Interrogator: What happens when that linkage is broken?

K: Interlinked.

Interrogator: Have they let you feel heartbreak?

K: Interlinked.

Interrogator: Did you buy a present for the person you love?

K: Within cells interlinked.

Interrogator: Why don't you say that three times?

K: Within cells interlinked.

K: Within cells interlinked.

K: Within cells interlinked.

Interrogator: Where do you go when you go within?

K: Within.
 
 
(Text from Shane Kilkelly's gist on github)


 

 

 

 

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Sunday, January 3, 2021

Everything was fine until....



Containment Breach


"Containment Breach"



Ray: Everything was fine until the grid was shut down by dickless here.

Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!

Mayor: Is this true?

Peter: Yes sir, it’s true. This man has no dick.

"Ghostbusters" - 1984



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Saturday, November 14, 2020

It ain't all waiting on you...

 

3/20/20 “Based on current trends, probably close to zero new US cases by April...” - Elon Musk



"This country's hard on people. You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity." 

~ Ellis in "No Country for Old Men" ~



In View of the Fact

The people of my time are passing away: my
wife is baking for a funeral, a 60-year-old who

died suddenly, when the phone rings, and it's
Ruth we care so much about in intensive care:

it was once weddings that came so thick and
fast, and then, first babies, such a hullabaloo:

now, it's this that and the other and somebody
else gone or on the brink: well, we never

thought we would live forever (although we did)
and now it looks like we won't: some of us

are losing a leg to diabetes, some don't know
what they went downstairs for, some know that

a hired watchful person is around, some like
to touch the cane tip into something steady,

so nice: we have already lost so many,
brushed the loss of ourselves ourselves: our

address books for so long a slow scramble now
are palimpsests, scribbles and scratches: our

index cards for Christmases, birthdays,
Halloweens drop clean away into sympathies:

at the same time we are getting used to so
many leaving, we are hanging on with a grip

to the ones left: we are not giving up on the
congestive heart failure or brain tumors, on

the nice old men left in empty houses or on
the widows who decide to travel a lot: we

think the sun may shine someday when we'll
drink wine together and think of what used to

be: until we die we will remember every
single thing, recall every word, love every

loss: then we will, as we must, leave it to
others to love, love that can grow brighter

and deeper till the very end, gaining strength
and getting more precious all the way . . .

 ~ A. R. Ammons ~

 
 
 
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Thursday, March 5, 2020

Come on now and say you will..



Tidal


"Collecting facts is important.

Knowledge is important.

But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life. We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another.

The Universe has shouted itself alive.

We are one of the shouts."

~ Ray Bradbury ~







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Saturday, February 1, 2020

Cursed



Tree




"Cursed be the ground for our sake.
Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us.
For out of the ground we were taken,
for the dust we are...
and to the dust we shall return."

~ The Book of Eli ~ 


 
 
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Friday, December 13, 2019

A Hidden Life







Terrence Malick, one of my favorite directors, has a new film being released today "A Hidden Life."  It looks beautiful as most Malick movies do.

According to the youtube post:
"Based on real events, from visionary writer-director Terrence Malick, A HIDDEN LIFE is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keeps his spirit alive."



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Sunday, December 1, 2019

The Pale Man



The Pale Man - Pan’s Labyrinth




"You're going to a very dangerous place, so be careful.
The thing that slumbers there, it is not human."

~ The Faun warning Ofelia of the Pale Man


Pan's Labyrinth
Guillermo del Toro




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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Always



This is how it starts



See?
That was nothing.
But that's how it always begins.
Very small.


~ Egg Shen - 'Big Trouble in Little China' ~



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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Cursed



Dustbowl



"Cursed be the ground for our sake.
Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us.
For out of the ground we were taken,
for the dust we are...
and to the dust we shall return."

~ The Book of Eli ~ 




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