Newest review up on the Arts Fuse, this one for the new Terrence Malick film.

The whole mostly-beautiful, sometimes puzzling morass constitutes a pensive meditation on the intersection of the timeless and the mundane—at least within the subjectivity of one man and one film director. The result is a film that’s difficult to classify, much less evaluate. How much you enjoy it may have a lot to do with what, exactly, you desire from a movie.

Read the rest here.

Posted on June 7th, 2011 by Taylor. Filed under Film, Published Work.

There’s no need to discuss loneliness. It’s a waste of time.

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Posted on May 27th, 2011 by Taylor. Filed under Film.

I reviewed Incendies last week for The Arts Fuse:

Incendies: a French word that translates loosely into “scorched.” An appropriate title for French Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s new film, a timely global tale of family, fate, conflict, and tragedy that could knock even the most stoic of viewers off their feet.

Read the full thing here.

Posted on May 20th, 2011 by Taylor. Filed under Film, Published Work.

The great Wesley Morris from Cannes. Apparently, they’ve premiered ‘A Trip to the Moon’ with some kind of color restoration performed from an old hand-colored print:

To watch “A Trip to the Moon” now is to be reminded of just how influential the movie’s been on the general history of fun — drugs, video games, horseplay. Méliès was working from Jules Verne, but his pioneering illusionism made him the Steve Jobs, Ray Bradbury, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and James Cameron of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movie itself is the wishful story of popular art: the dream of being transported somewhere new and never coming back. Come to think of it, that’s actually the point of this festival: to make the dream last for 10 days.

His daily updates are worth following, for sure.

Posted on May 13th, 2011 by Taylor. Filed under Film.

“Maybe I only had a relationship with her as a photographer, not as a partner. If I hadn’t documented her death, both the description of my state of mind and my declaration of love would have been incomplete. I found consolation in unmasking lust and loss, by staging a bitter confrontation between symbols. After Yoko’s death, I didn’t want to photograph anything but life – honestly. Yet every time I pressed the button, I ended up close to death, because to photograph is to stop time. I want to tell you something, listen closely: photography is murder.” – Nobuyoshi Araki

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Posted on May 13th, 2011 by Taylor. Filed under Misc.