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Just Post Something, Damn Me
August 21, 2010 – 11:16 pm
I have so much to say, but am somehow unable to say it. I have to start somewhere.
Disjointed Thoughts about Summer Hours
July 18, 2009 – 9:00 pm
After tweeting that I was engaged in a volatile “discussion” of Assayas’s Summer Hours, I was asked privately to explain my position. I’ll share with you, volatile readers, that position. I can only really talk about such things in reaction to others. So I’ll tell you first what my foil (spouse) had to say. In [...]
Child of God
June 17, 2009 – 11:12 am
Two of likely four shooting days have been completed on Child of God. We’re shooting this feature simultaneously with Amity (Child on Saturdays; Amity on Sundays), and within Child of God we are often shooting disparate scenes simultaneously. It’s enough to make this author a little schizo. I am acting, producing, shooting, kid-wrangling, singing, casting, catering, brainstorming, [...]
Ailsa’s Return to the North Pole
April 22, 2009 – 5:12 pm
This post is not seasonally appropriate, unless you live in my home where it’s Christmas all year round. My three-year-old daughter, Ailsa, has been Christmas-obsessed almost from birth. Her favorite book for at least her first year and a half was a soft Christmas Alphabet book. She’d pore over it forever. And then Puppy arrived [...]
So, What Happens Now?
April 22, 2009 – 1:16 am
The question everyone’s asking me now, of course, is, “So what happens next?” And they really want to know. We’ve had two movies with superlative reviews. What happens next?? Does someone pay you to make movies? (Well, no.) Do you move to LA? (Can’t see a reason to…) Do you sell out? (I’m willing.) Will [...]
Devil in Spike-heeled Boots
April 22, 2009 – 12:49 am
I can’t get this out of my head. See, the thing no one seems to grasp about Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is her culpability. Every discussion of Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky describes her as impossibly cheerful, but unable to break through to the angry Scott (Eddie Marsdan). Roger Ebert thinks Poppy’s trying to “help” Scott. Richard von [...]
And in the End…
April 6, 2009 – 10:09 am
I’m a big fan of endings. I can forgive many a problematic film that manages to move or provoke me with the ending. I chugged through Chloe in the Afternoon, mildly engaged by the tiny brilliant things only Rohmer can do (Chloe sees all women except the wife as a threat and is constantly testing [...]
Valentine’s Assignment
March 26, 2009 – 4:46 am
I’ve been assigned the task of beefing up my blog for marketing purposes. Whatever that means. I’ve been having trouble getting a groove going on this here maryamurphy site, so I’m going to try to spew forth a bit about movies I’ve seen in recent days. THE CLASS: As vivid and painful and fascinating as [...]
DANSEN: Cinequest 19 Review
March 3, 2009 – 12:15 am
Never have I seen a dancing movie less about dancing. There is dancing, but it’s plot-irrelevant, used as visual poetry and texture. The dancing reflects the mood of the protagonist, Annika (Trine Dyrholm), bright and beautiful in her ebullience, discordant and wrong when she is conflicted and afraid. Annika (I totally want to steal that [...]
15% Kubrick-free
February 18, 2009 – 12:52 am
I need to get into the habit of blogging before my brain disintegrates completely. Perhaps you’ve heard of “Mommy Brain?” Very real phenomenon. I’m working at about 12% thinkerage capacity. My current sickly disposition doesn’t help. Nor does the budding Vicodin addiction brought on by sacroiliac joint dysfunction brought on by pregnancy. Babies are destroying [...]
Current Infatuations
December 20, 2008 – 8:06 am
Carla Pauli; Danish cinema, particularly anything Lars von Trier or Anders Thomas Jensen wrote or directed; Korean cinema, particularly anything starring Song Kang-ho; Little Bear; Bass and Rankin Christmas specials; maple syrup; my two favorite kids; Matt Barnes; The Decemberists; Tsai Ming-liang; Satyajit Ray; The New World; Q’orianka Kilcher; Mads Mikkelsen; Nikolaj Lie Kaas; Mathieu [...]
Envy
December 13, 2008 – 10:05 pm
So I’m thinking about Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom and wondering if I’ll ever get a chance to ask him what would have happened in the third and final season. Do scripts exist somewhere? Could you send them to me, Lars? I won’t tell anyone. I’ll just read them to myself in secret, playing all [...]