I’m departing for Washington, D.C., very early this morning and will be more or less inaccessible for the next forty-eight hours. Not only does Gotham Books, the publishers of Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, have me booked as tight as an apple skin throughout my stay in the nation’s capital, but I’ll be on the jump as soon as I get off the train in New York on Wednesday.
Needless to say, the blog will continue as usual, but I won’t. See you on Thursday!
Archives for November 5, 2013
TT: Lookback
From 2003:
Wild Strawberries is a beautiful movie–one that knows how beautiful it is, and wants you to know, too. The older I get, the less readily I warm to that kind of art, be it film, painting, music, the novel, or what have you. This isn’t to say that I didn’t enjoy revisiting Wild Strawberries after a quarter-century. I did, very much. But I don’t know whether I’ll ever feel the need to see it again, whereas I rarely let a year go by without watching The Rules of the Game. Which tells you pretty much everything you need to know about me, aesthetically speaking….
Read the whole thing here.
TT: Almanac
“A film is–or should be–more like music than like fiction.”
Stanley Kubrick (quoted in Norman Kagan, The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick)