Recent posts tagged aesthetics
2021
Canonical Criteria
Friends of mine and I were talking about the idea of a canon or pantheon of great movies, and how to select them. We had a fun debate about the criteria, and eventually I drew up a list.
O Taste And See
The hardest question: why, exactly, do I like or hate something?
2020
The New Needs Friends
The new needs friends, not evangelists or apologists.
2019
Guilty As Charged
Everyone who's ever put a word to paper has an excuse, or a justification if you want to be less nasty, for everything they do. Of course I'm guilty of this.
2017
Crazy Doesn't Help
On the use of "crazy" as an intensifier.
2015
The Smartest Guys In The Medium Dept.
"...the doctrine that the genius must be in advance of his time is almost wholly false and vicious..."
2014
Tout Comprendre C'est Tout Pardonner And All That Dept.
To understand doesn't mean we have to forgive. See: comic book movies, et al.
2013
Take No Shelter Here Dept.
On (not) taking refuge in one's art.
Ubik Witty Dept.
Once we've bonded through our mutual fandoms, then what?
Old But Not In The Way Dept.
Every movie, every book, is time in a bottle, if only you let yourself see it.
Perfect Forever Dept.
What makes a work great isn't an objective truth.
The Stanislavsky Solution Dept.
On loving the art in yourself, not yourself in the art -- and not letting your art do your living for you.
2012
Faster, Cinematographer! Kill! Kill! Dept.
When just enough is more.
