I played so much badminton this afternoon, but I also introduced my niece to pollo a la brasa and plantains and read her a children's book full of riddles which she loved guessing—have I got some folk songs for her—and she complained at bedtime that she hadn't spent enough time with me, so I consider the fact that I am currently sort of a damp rag worth while. I'll see her again tomorrow. Have some links.
1. I have wanted to see F.P.1 antwortet nicht (1932) since about 2007 and I may finally get my chance. I would cheerfully watch the English-language version just for Conrad Veidt, just as the draw of the original is, no offense to Curt Siodmak, Peter Lorre.
2. A.O. Scott, "The Movies Are Back. But What Are Movies Now?" After all the meditation on film and TV and streaming subscriptions, I was most struck by the closing observation, which packs the intended punch: "The screen doesn't care what we are looking at, as long as our eyes are engaged and our data can be harvested . . . As art becomes content, content is transmuted into data, which it is your job, as a consumer, to give back to the companies that sold you access to the art."
3. I had never heard of Paul Huntley before his obituary, but it's a wonderful one. Without knowing it, I had seen a great deal of his work.
It is not that I don't think about the pandemic because I am not talking very much about it; I had to go inside three buildings today and the only one that felt safe was the medical one, because it wasn't behaving as though a plague ends just because people are tired of it. It shouldn't bore anyone, not with breakthrough cases exploding on the Cape, with Alabama in a swamping unvaccinated wave. I think I really have stopped believing in that strain of science fiction where humanity unites against some greater enemy. We had one and it was too much of an inconvenience—or an advantage—to fight.
1. I have wanted to see F.P.1 antwortet nicht (1932) since about 2007 and I may finally get my chance. I would cheerfully watch the English-language version just for Conrad Veidt, just as the draw of the original is, no offense to Curt Siodmak, Peter Lorre.
2. A.O. Scott, "The Movies Are Back. But What Are Movies Now?" After all the meditation on film and TV and streaming subscriptions, I was most struck by the closing observation, which packs the intended punch: "The screen doesn't care what we are looking at, as long as our eyes are engaged and our data can be harvested . . . As art becomes content, content is transmuted into data, which it is your job, as a consumer, to give back to the companies that sold you access to the art."
3. I had never heard of Paul Huntley before his obituary, but it's a wonderful one. Without knowing it, I had seen a great deal of his work.
It is not that I don't think about the pandemic because I am not talking very much about it; I had to go inside three buildings today and the only one that felt safe was the medical one, because it wasn't behaving as though a plague ends just because people are tired of it. It shouldn't bore anyone, not with breakthrough cases exploding on the Cape, with Alabama in a swamping unvaccinated wave. I think I really have stopped believing in that strain of science fiction where humanity unites against some greater enemy. We had one and it was too much of an inconvenience—or an advantage—to fight.
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