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Off in the corner doing poet's work
New York got our nor'easter. In Boston it snowed lightly this morning, sullenly rained for a couple hours more, drizzled off into an ordinary chilly spring day. On the one hand, I am disappointed. On the other, had we gotten yesterday's predicted foot of snow the Brattle would almost certainly have canceled its 35 mm screening of Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky (1982) and I loved that movie so much, I can live with a near-miss storm. For years I thought there were only two members of the Bowie-Swinton species on this planet. I revised my opinion following Tom Hiddleston in Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). But when Anne Carlisle masked in luminescent paint declares, "And I am no less androgynous than David Bowie himself," she doesn't just mean it, we believe her, and not just because she plays both male and female roles in this strung-out, neon-lit, no-wave New York feminist sci-fi/horror. I add it to the ever-lengthening list of movies I someday want to sleep enough to write about. I don't see a lot of movies that feel like the performance art baby of Derek Jarman and Tanith Lee. The public access synth score is amazing.
1. If you are on Twitter and enjoying Jeannelle M. Ferreira's The Covert Captain, you may wish to follow its author @JeannelleWrites.
2. I like this poem: Jill Talbot, "Questions for Stephen Hawking."
3. Speaking of Tom Hiddleston, I would pay good money to see him play a peat bog ghost, thank you.
4. I am sad to see the negative reviews of Steven S. DeKnight's Pacific Rim Uprising (2018) both because the trailers looked so promising and because I really loved del Toro's Pacific Rim (2013). I worry they broke one of the elements of the original film that made it stand out and really mattered to me.
5. I wish I'd had this article on Linda Sarsour available when I ran into that person on Facebook with a hate-on for her.
I did not expect yesterday to focus around a new book announcement. I am having to readjust my self-esteem for the fact that a couple hundred people on two different social media platforms have been saying nice things to me ever since. I think on some level I really believed maybe five people besides me would think it was cool. Pay attention, Tiny Wittgenstein.
1. If you are on Twitter and enjoying Jeannelle M. Ferreira's The Covert Captain, you may wish to follow its author @JeannelleWrites.
2. I like this poem: Jill Talbot, "Questions for Stephen Hawking."
3. Speaking of Tom Hiddleston, I would pay good money to see him play a peat bog ghost, thank you.
4. I am sad to see the negative reviews of Steven S. DeKnight's Pacific Rim Uprising (2018) both because the trailers looked so promising and because I really loved del Toro's Pacific Rim (2013). I worry they broke one of the elements of the original film that made it stand out and really mattered to me.
5. I wish I'd had this article on Linda Sarsour available when I ran into that person on Facebook with a hate-on for her.
I did not expect yesterday to focus around a new book announcement. I am having to readjust my self-esteem for the fact that a couple hundred people on two different social media platforms have been saying nice things to me ever since. I think on some level I really believed maybe five people besides me would think it was cool. Pay attention, Tiny Wittgenstein.
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So I saw Pacific Rim: Now With More Kaiju this evening, after cautiously checking three reviews, and it was actually better than what it said on the tin. The plot makes no sense. Well, there is the kind of sense of "we need a battle on an ice sheet with glaciers" and "this bit is in Japan I want to include Mt Fuji for pretty", but not any other kind of sense where consequences follow actions, particularly much, unless they lead to More Jägers Hit Kaiju. The director has a singular vision, and it was shared by the editor: this is a surprisingly tightly edited film. del Toro kept a credit for art direction, as well as producer, and it shows; this is very much the same visual universe as the last one. What did work are the people. This is a movie that needed to handle a transition to a new near-teenage cast, and it does it better than Star Wars managed, by leaving out the sulking. There is a complete lack of discussion of any philosophy of the Drift; it seems to fit, these are late-teens not undergrads, after all. Hermann & Newt are very much themselves. There is a pleasing lack of Hollywood lazy-stereotype easy outs. It's not the layered depths of movie of its predecessor, but it is short and does credit to the genre, and had me wanting to see the next one.
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Thank you!
Hermann & Newt are very much themselves. There is a pleasing lack of Hollywood lazy-stereotype easy outs. It's not the layered depths of movie of its predecessor, but it is short and does credit to the genre, and had me wanting to see the next one.
I'm glad to hear it. Thank you for providing a countervailing point of view! It was sounding as though the sequel did everything the original had avoided, which was a demoralizing prospect.