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  1. Ian Scuffling

    I want to go to Thailand

    Isan looks so beautiful. Have any of you guys been?
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    Adam Lehrer

    I'm sure you guys know more about his background than me but I read this the other day and have been thinking about it a lot. Makes me think of John Berger in his ability to spin off brilliantly into thundering social critique on the back of what begins as seemingly innocuous. Any other writers...
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    The Mad Men thread

    As you all may have guessed from my avi, I was going to do this eventually. Mad Men is unfortunately the best work of television and the end of the medium, an American Ulysses to Twin Peaks: The Return's Finnegan's Wake. I'm on my 3rd time watching now and am halfway through season 4, just...
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    Photography tips

    Going to start film photography since a friend gave me an old Praktica LB and film as a gift. Any tips for beginngers? I'm mostly interested in landscapes.
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    Avant-Garde Cinema

    Finally watched Dog Star Man this week and wrote down my thoughts. My way of judging experimental film has become primarily on the merits of self-consciousness, and subsequent lack of neurosis. My frustration with a lot of experimental films of the 21st century I've seen is they are...
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    The Passion of Joan of Arc

    Went to a screening the this week with a conversation afterwards with scholars of art history, film, and divinity. The most interesting point discussed to me was the question of the film's influence on Schrader's conception of transcendental style, as a film that attempts a similar mysticism but...
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    Peckinpah and Zahler

    Noticed version posts a lot of director threads and he suggested I start one on these two. Finally got around to watching Brawl in Cell Block 99 last night and was discussing Bone Tomahawk with a friend. After my post yesterday about the way P and Z handle violence got me thinking about the...
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