Top 6 movies

Top 6 movies: (1) Shutter Island (2) Raging Bull (3) Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (4) Gone Girl (5) Prometheus (6) Christmas Vacation

Ready Player One

A strange and disjointed affair, but also an interesting comment on the competitive nature of social media and social networking. Worth checking out!

 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1677720/?ref_=nv_sr_1

The Politics of Abstraction: Race, Gender, and Slavery in the Poetry of William Blake

The fine folks at Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee have converted my old Master's thesis into digital format.  Here it is for your perusal:

http://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6027&context=utk_gradthes

Enjoy!

The Game

Hmm. I watched The Game this Saturday and Sunday, and it was actually a painful experience (you actually can't find it on plain DVD now). The scene with the burrito and the scene where Michael Douglas threatens little children are both terrible. However, I actually admire David Fincher a great deal, especially his remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

https://filmschoolrejects.com/david-fincher-motion-emotion/

Badge 373

Badge 373, rumor has it, is a film that Martin Scorsese codirected at one point but did not actually put his name on.  Howard Koch is actually credited as director, but many scenes have Scorsese's indelible inprint, resembling sequences from his Who's That Knocking at My Door.  The outdoor sequences and informal staging are clearly reminiscent of this film.  Robert Duvall plays the "Popeye Doyle" character (resembling Popeye Doyle from The French Connection) this time around, and does a pretty good job of making the character a hard nosed cop.  The film itself closely resembles The French Connection in places, but is more loosely structured.  Worth checking out, as kind of a rare curiosity.