Category: Things you should be watching
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Post #64: The Master
I saw P.T. Anderson’s new film The Master last night, and though the range of feelings I experienced during and after watching the film could best be summed up by Huh?, I can say assuredly that The Master was an exhilarating filmic experience and I can’t stop thinking about it. Can’t…
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Post #52: How Great is the Internet?
Man, I love the Internet. Where else could you ever have access to the mad genius who spent God knows how many hundreds of hours assembling and cutting together a seven minute video of all the phrases that Aaron Sorkin (pictured at left) has repeated, and then repeated again (via…
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Post #40: The Wire
Admittedly, you probably need to have seen (at least some) of The Wire to make it through all 36 minutes of Erlend Lavik’s video essay on the “visual style” of the show, but it’s a fascinating and comprehensive look at an aspect of David Simon’s great television masterpiece that you…
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Post #39: Man with a Marker
One of the great things about teaching classic works of literature is that you’re arming students with a cultural bookmark that they carry with them for life. Who hasn’t been somewhere where people started talking about Of Mice and Men or Romeo and Juliet or The Catcher in the Rye…
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Post #35: On the Road (to the movies)
I just watched the trailer for the new film adaptation of Kerouac’s On the Road. I didn’t even know an On the Road film was in the works, let alone around the corner. I’ve always sort of bought the notion that the book was mostly un-filmable because of its wandering…
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Post #2: DFW on the (sub) Brain
The umbrella topic to start the year in my classes has been “What Does it Mean to be Educated?” but after re-reading and playing the audio to my honors seminar, I’m wondering now if the entire theme and the subsequent class periods spent discussing and writing about it wasn’t subconsciously…
Benjamin Roesch 