January 2012
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“I’m someone who would rather return to a city that he’s visited many times...”
– William Gibson, interviewed at The Verge.
Whether it’s a sign of that same desire to burrow under the surface of the city, or just because I have a lack of imagination, I’ve found myself visiting the same places repeatedly: New York five times, now (and more to come, I’m sure),...
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“I’m genuinely interested in seeing the human race escape the planet and go...”
– Warren Ellis on Newt Gingrich, Space Realism and Future America at Motherboard.
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“Cars spend just 5 percent of their lives in motion.”
– A diverting statistic from Between the Lines, a feature on parking in that city from Los Angeles magazine.
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“Twitter made an important announcement this week regarding their ability to...”
– Simon Batistoni: What you need to know about Twitter’s new filters.
Well worth a read, because he knows what he’s talking about.
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“We have to stop building cities as if everyone is 30 years-old and athletic.”
– Gil Peñalosa, quoted in The 8 to 80 Problem: Designing Cities for Young and Old by John Lorinc for The Atlantic Cities.
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“Aren’t Oscarbatory films like The Artist, Hugo, and Midnight in Paris the high...”
– Todd Serencha, via perpetua.
I think this might be a more forceful statement of what I was nudging towards. (I’ve seen all three - but none of the Transformers films - and enjoyed them all, but I still take his point. They just happen to be catering to my tastes.)
Also, I have to remember...
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“I think TV is pushing ahead. It used to be we make TV on video and they remake...”
– Steven Moffat, answering “Isn’t choosing British TV over Hollywood nuts, career-wise?” in an interview in the Guardian: ‘There is a clue everybody’s missed’: Sherlock writer interviewed.
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Oscar Thoughts
I put some thoughts about the Oscar nominations into a reply to Joshua Nguyen, but here are some more.
Hugo and The Artist lead the Oscar nominations by count. I suppose that proves that films about film go down well with people who make films.
… either that, or they like nostalgia about the time when cinema was the new, revolutionary artform.
Only one Best Picture nominee is set entirely...
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An Oscar Reply
joshuanguyen:
matthew:
Seriously, though, last year was a parade of remarkable films; that’s not something you would conclude from these nominations.
War Horse???? It’s ET with a horse. Horse runs home.
Midnight in Paris? It’s a postcard extended to two hours.
Moneyball? A baseball movie where the audience’s attention span is the only meaningful antagonist.
Tree of Life: There’s a reason...
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“A library is not simply the books and the computers and the resources, but it’s...”
– Alan Bennett, quoted in the Paris Review: Alan Bennett on ‘Smut’, by Jonathan Gharraie.
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“Uggie, the cute Jack Russell terrier in the movie, has been featured...”
– Peter Bradshaw: Is The Artist’s awards momentum a dramatic comedy of errors?
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“This is exactly the kind of film I want to be making. I don’t want to be making...”
– Carey Mulligan’s words to Steve McQueen when trying to win the part in Shame, from her interview in the Guardian: ‘I haven’t seen myself naked in the mirror for a decade’. 