Comments on: The Science of Sleep http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=517 "If you fake the funk, your nose will grow." -- Bootsy Collins Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:45:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Home Interiors http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=517&cpage=1#comment-48405 Home Interiors Tue, 19 May 2009 06:49:10 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=517#comment-48405 You say Gondry presents now a flip-side of his previous movie, suggesting a balancing gesture of his artistry. Nightspore, might we say the best movie reviews are written about movies we don’t especially like You say Gondry presents now a flip-side of his previous movie, suggesting a balancing gesture of his artistry. Nightspore, might we say the best movie reviews are written about movies we don’t especially like

]]> By: royc. http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=517&cpage=1#comment-13457 royc. Sat, 18 Nov 2006 03:06:39 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=517#comment-13457 Great post and I quite enjoyed the movie. I saw <i>Tideland</i> a few nights later and had a similar but much more visceral reaction to it. Both still haunt my head quite often. Great post and I quite enjoyed the movie. I saw Tideland a few nights later and had a similar but much more visceral reaction to it. Both still haunt my head quite often.

]]> By: nightspore http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=517&cpage=1#comment-9003 nightspore Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:38:47 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=517#comment-9003 "might we say the best movie reviews are written about movies we don’t especially like? " I think that's often true -- that is the best reviews are those that make us rethink things, and nothing does that more palpably than a review that makes you like something you didn't. I think Steven is particularly good at that, and always has been. “might we say the best movie reviews are written about movies we don’t especially like? ”

I think that’s often true — that is the best reviews are those that make us rethink things, and nothing does that more palpably than a review that makes you like something you didn’t. I think Steven is particularly good at that, and always has been.

]]> By: Erik http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=517&cpage=1#comment-8975 Erik Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:17:29 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=517#comment-8975 I've read and liked the post. Tho I've heard much about the movie I still have no desire to see it. Is their a responsibility to writing a good or bad review that must stay fidel to that other viewing experience? You say Gondry presents now a flip-side of his previous movie, suggesting a balancing gesture of his artistry. Nightspore, might we say the best movie reviews are written about movies we don't especially like? Somewhere near here is where you seem to go in > Acting now as the balance to our senses, a restraint/implant of desire, is how the movie never goes anywhere. I’ve read and liked the post. Tho I’ve heard much about the movie I still have no desire to see it. Is their a responsibility to writing a good or bad review that must stay fidel to that other viewing experience? You say Gondry presents now a flip-side of his previous movie, suggesting a balancing gesture of his artistry. Nightspore, might we say the best movie reviews are written about movies we don’t especially like? Somewhere near here is where you seem to go in > Acting now as the balance to our senses, a restraint/implant of desire, is how the movie never goes anywhere.

]]> By: gshapiro http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=517&cpage=1#comment-8940 gshapiro Wed, 04 Oct 2006 03:09:27 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=517#comment-8940 I keep waiting for a Cormac McCarthy review. . . I keep waiting for a Cormac McCarthy review. . .

]]> By: nightspore http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=517&cpage=1#comment-8846 nightspore Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:22:06 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=517#comment-8846 "It’s an amazing accomplishment to make a film whose visceral force comes precisely from its most impalpable and evanescent elements." Yes, I think you're right about that. I read elsewhere that the animation is stop-action. This is a great post, and probably if I'd read it first I'd have liked the movie a lot more than I did. Or maybe for me it was a victim of how well it evoked Godard and Pee-Wee, and how well it also managed not to reduce to them, which I may have wanted it to do. It's certainly haunted me in retrospect. “It’s an amazing accomplishment to make a film whose visceral force comes precisely from its most impalpable and evanescent elements.” Yes, I think you’re right about that.

I read elsewhere that the animation is stop-action.

This is a great post, and probably if I’d read it first I’d have liked the movie a lot more than I did. Or maybe for me it was a victim of how well it evoked Godard and Pee-Wee, and how well it also managed not to reduce to them, which I may have wanted it to do.

It’s certainly haunted me in retrospect.

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