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Our April Visitor
March 13, 2008
Our April Visitor
Tell me about the Pope," a Jewish friend said to me a few days ago, as he, his wife, and I stood in line waiting to move into a hotel dining room for a charity dinner. "Yes, please do," his wife insisted. "We know he's coming in April, but we really don't know much about him."
"Can we listen in?" asked a lady standing in front of us with her husband. "We're Catholics, Cardinal; but I'm afraid we don't know all we should about the Pope either."
Suddenly the line began to move, and the two couples and I were assigned to different tables by a young lady at the door of the dining room. As we parted, I promised to send them an answer to their inquiries in writing. And here it is.
Joseph Alois Ratzinger, the 264th Successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Christ, was born on April 16, 1927, in a little town in Bavaria by the name of Marktl am Inn. It was Holy Saturday, and he was baptized that very day.
Joseph was the youngest of three children born to Joseph and Maria Ratzinger. His brother, Georg, is a priest, ordained on the same day as Joseph; and his sister, Maria, is unmarried. They were reared primarily in the village of Traunstein near the Austrian border, where their father was a police officer who made no secret of his contempt for the Nazi regime that took power in Germany in the mid-1930s.
At the age of 16, the future Pope was drafted into the anti-aircraft-corps of the German army. Two years later he was put into a prisoners-of-war camp for several months and upon his release entered the seminary along with his brother. On June 29, 1951, the two of them were ordained to the priesthood by Michael Cardinal Faulhaber, the Archbishop of Munich.
In 1953, Father Joseph Ratzinger obtained a doctorate in theology with a dissertation on St. Augustine and four years later completed a second dissertation on St. Bonaventure, which qualified him to teach on the university level. Thus it was from 1959 to 1977, he taught theology in the seminary of the Archdiocese of Munich and in four celebrated German universities-Bonn, Munster, TŸbingen and Regensburg. From 1962 to 1965, he also served as a "peritus" or theological adviser to Joseph Cardinal Frings of Cologne during the Second Vatican Council in Rome. Moreover, in 1972, he joined such eminent scholars as Henri de Lubac and Hans Urs von Balthasar in founding a journal of theology known as Communio, which continues to this day to enjoy the esteem of theologians across the world. Finally, in March of 1977, Professor Ratzinger was appointed Archbishop of Munich by Pope Paul VI.
With outstanding academic credentials and four years of service as the shepherd of a large Archdiocese, it came as no surprise when in November of 1981 Archbishop Ratzinger was chosen by Pope John Paul II to be the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the office of the Roman Curia that concerns itself with matters theological. A year later, the new Prefect was named to the College of Cardinals, whose Dean he became in 2002.
Throughout his 24 years as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Ratzinger addressed himself to a host of issues that inevitably led to a good deal of criticism and controversy. They included "liberation theology" and its connection with Communist and atheistic ideologies, "religious indifferentism" which views one faith as valid as any other, and the suggestion in some quarters that Jesus Christ was not the one Lord and Savior of the world. In addition it fell to him to deal with the scandals that emerged from revelations of sexual misconduct on the part of certain members of the clergy and religious communities. All of these complex and delicate matters were treated with calm, precision and clarity, so much so that within a very short time the wise and gentle Prefect had won the admiration and plaudits of Catholics in every corner of the globe.
Accordingly, once again it came as no surprise when on April 19, 2005, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was elected to succeed Pope John Paul II in a conclave that lasted but two days and required only four ballots. He took the name of Benedict because of his devotion to St. Benedict of Nursia, the Founder of the Benedictine Order, and his admiration for Pope Benedict XV, the Successor of St. Peter who heroically fought to preserve peace in Europe before World War I.
As Supreme Pontiff, Pope Benedict has issued two splendid Encyclical Letters, one on Charity ("Deus Caritas Est") and another on hope ("Spe Salvi"). He has as well published a Post-Synodal Exhortation on the Eucharist ("Sacramentum Caritatis") and a book on the early life of the Lord, "Jesus of Nazareth." Add to all of this new legislation on the use of Latin in the liturgy ("Summorum Pontificum") and countless addresses, homilies and reflections on a remarkably wide range of subjects from ecumenism and world poverty to education and religious life. Furthermore, he has all the while managed to fit into his incredibly heavy schedule "apostolic journeys" to Germany, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Brazil, Austria and various shrines in Italy, with plans for visits to the United States in April of this year and Australia in July.
Such then is a brief résumé of the life of Pope Benedict XVI. A complete and worthy biography will one day be written, but none will be truly complete without an explanation of what it means to be Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ and Supreme Shepherd of the Church. As Pope, Joseph Alois Ratzinger has succeeded in the office of St. Peter upon whom the Lord built his Church (cf. Matthew 16:18), whom the Lord ordered to "feed my lambs and feed my sheep" (cf. John 21:15-17), who was chosen by the Lord to "confirm the brethren" (cf. Luke 22:32), and who in the earliest years of the Church made authoritative and conclusive decisions about such key issues as the cessation of the liturgical and dietary laws of the Old Testament (cf. Acts 11:1-18) and the manner in which an Apostle was to be chosen to take the place of Judas Iscariot (cf. Acts 1:15-26). Or to put it more simply: Joseph Alois Ratzinger is a successor of the Prince of the Apostles who is to teach, sanctify and lead the faithful as St. Peter did in the beginning and 264 other Bishops of Rome have done over the past almost 2,000 years.
With all of this in mind, we cannot fail to appreciate what an extraordinary blessing it is to have the Holy Father in our midst as we complete the celebration of our Bicentennial Year in April. We will listen attentively to his plea for peace at the United Nations. We will meditate his message to Protestant and Orthodox leaders at St. Joseph's parish in Manhattan. We will devoutly join him at Masses in St. Patrick's Cathedral and Yankee Stadium. We will rejoice with him as he meets with young people, seminarians and future religious at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers. And we will be united with him in spirit as he prays at the scene of the horror of September 11, 2001.
Thus, when he boards the plane for Rome on April 20th, we will not only be better informed about him, as the two couples mentioned at the outset sought to be. We will also be close to the Lord, by Whose grace we will have been made stronger in faith, more devout in prayer and energized in that hope which our revered visitor has identified as the theme and objective of his pastoral journey to New York and the nation.
Edward Cardinal Egan
Archbishop of New York
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Acting, Anti-Celebrity, Masculinity: Denzel Just Does It
What do you know about Denzel Washington? Outside of his film roles — varied and classic — what do you know? Did you know that he's been married to his (first, only) wife since 1983? That he has four children? That his father was a preacher, that his parents divorced when he was 14, that he went to private high school and nearly flunked out of Fordham before he discovered acting? Did you know that he's been possessed by the Holy Spirit, that he considers going into pastorhood, that he prays every day?
Unless you've read the six articles — from GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Grantland, and The New York Times — that I just read, chances are you did not. He's the biggest star you know the littlest about.
But you do know who Denzel Washington is. You know what he represents: a blend of charisma and honor, save when he "goes bad" and plays the amoral, the stubborn, the angry. He's a master of historical ventriloquism, the first choice for any bio-pic of a black man. Yet he's also dexterous, racially speaking, in the same way that Will Smith is: if a role is written for a white man, he can play it. Which isn't to say that his image isn't inflected with racial awareness — see, for example, his three collaborations with Spike Lee, including Malcolm X, along with his role as "The Hurricane" and various other racially specific roles. His image is not a-racial, but he can play a-racial — and that's part of what has made him a star. (Apocryphal legend has him adament about decreasing, or altogether cutting, storylines and/or scenes in which he appears, romantically speaking, with white women: white men don't want to see me go home with their women, he's said to have argued. Whether or not this is true, the principle holds true: all the way back in The Pelican Brief, when his character played it chaste with Julia Roberts (despite the romance depicted in the filmic adaptation) through last week's Flight, when he fools around with a beautiful, very white love interest….but never more than a kiss, and very fleetingly onscreen).
Point is: Denzel is, economically speaking, one of the most powerful and resonant stars working today. He is, however, as I like to parse it in my stardom classes, a star purely in terms of picture personality and capital. People like the type of role he plays, and they like it well enough that they actually go and see his movies. He is not a cultural star, per se — his image is limited to his roles, and what they seem to represent. What they represent is something powerful: his picture personality is that of an eloquent, persuasively charismatic man capable of manipulating and transcending the environment in which he finds himself. On the street, in the boxing ring, in the courtroom, amidst gangsters, in the air — he dominates. Sometimes he's a bit nefarious and morally dubious; most often, however, he's righteous and affable. Like Tom Cruise or Matt Damon, he is, let it be said, a pure pleasure to watch on screen.
Which is why audiences flock to his movies. His track record is nearly without fault. He doesn't do risky independent films; somewhat humorously, his lowest grossing films are the ones he chose to direct himself. He plays big men, leading men, and he plays them at least once a year. He's not Nicolas Cage, taking anything that comes his way to pay off the mortgage on his 52 houses, but he's not Daniel Day-Lewis, or even Will Smith, either. He works. And it's not as simple as a "one for me, one for them" industry algebra — the type of visible rotation you see in the careers of Clooney and Damon. There's a fine line between his plainly populist works and his prestige ones, usually marked by the extent to which he's willing to play up the moral ambiguity of his character. And this most recent turn, as an alcoholic yet valiant pilot in Flight, is in the later camp. He's marvelous in it, but he's also very easy to despise.
Such dexterity is central to Washington's picture personality, with its dominant themes of charisma and skill. I've never seen Washington not charismatic: whether he's evil or good, broken or whole, he's always charming. You can't take your eyes off of him. You see that he deserves whatever splendors he's achieved, and if he hasn't achieved them, then he deserves them anyway. Even in Flight, when his character is (no spoiler) a huge drunken piece of shit, there's a moment when he comes out of the hotel room, captain's uniform on, Rolling Stones soundtrack turned to 11, and you're like DAMMMMMMMN, I can totally forget he was just sniffing lines at 7 am! Before flying a plane!
Why? It's a nifty editing trick — and the soundtrack, jeez, you put that soundtrack on behind anyone, have them walk in slo-mo, and suddenly they're charisma manifest. But it's also a pure Denzel moment — a moment you see in almost every film — when he takes the movie by the horns and let's you know he's in control. Not because he looks good walking down the hallway, but, in the case of Flight, because he's evidenced that he's got this character down: schlubby and hungover in one scene, on top of his game the next. That's theme #2: the talent. The Oscar-Winning, the every-famous-figure-playing, the I don't talk about my process guy. He just does it; it's just natural. It's real, unadulterated talent.
What I'm interested in, then, is how Washington has participated in the cultivation of this second discourse — a discourse that simultaneously bolsters his masculinity and appeal to a certain movie-going demographic.
He's done it in two ways:
1.) Naturalizing Acting
Because Washington's life is seemingly without scandal, interviews tend to focus on his actual films — and many of them, including a lengthy NY Times profile from last month, focus exclusively on it. The profile begins with a key quote from Washington:
When he was young, "being a movie actor wasn't on my radar at all," Mr. Washington said. "I took an acting class at Fordham, and it was kind of easy, or I enjoyed it, I should say, and people told me I was good. When I started out, I was just thinking about the stage; it was never my goal to get to Hollywood. But here I am."
So humble, so un-meditated! He didn't try to be good, he just was. And while he put in his time — the stage, then commercials, then television, and finally the big-time in late '80s — the talent was always there, just waiting to shine.
He says that his process is a combination of "inside out" (meaning finding the psychology of the character and then going from there — a Method tactic) and "outside in" (more in the Laurence Olivier school, in which you analyze the character and consciously "play" him, as opposed to "becoming" him). In other words, he uses a few tricks — he learned to box for The Hurricane, he learned the sax for Mo' Better Blues, he spent a lot of time in a flight simulator for Flight — but he's no Daniel Day-Lewis or Joaquin Phoenix. He prepares, but he doesn't overthink it. In the interview with the Times, he uses the metaphor of the pilot: the director, crew, and other actors need to trust what he's doing. He'll surprise them, but they need to trust that he'll get the plane, er, film, on the ground safely. Indeed, Washington's acting is always confident; there's a swagger there. His characters have swagger, but his acting has swagger was well, if that makes sense.
But as Washington and his profilers also emphasize that he doesn't exactly know how he does what he does. Again, the pilot metaphor is yet again apt: as the passengers on the plane, you don't know exactly how you get on the ground; you just do. Even the pilot might not understand exactly how he nails a difficult landing. But he does, and it's better not to ask questions how it happens. You could transwer this metaphor to that a chef: it tastes good, doesn't it, so don't ask questions!
Or: Hey fans of Denzel, stop asking questions about why he's so good: he just is! You'll ruin it if you think about it too hard! Washington uses these metaphors himself. He's reticent to talk about process. The proof of his skill is on the screen: why complicate it?
It's a masculine conception of acting — how it happens, why it works. It distinguishes him from the feminized, emotional method actors; the weirdos and the drama nerds. Washington loves acting, but he doesn't overthink it — or least that's the image he's cultivated.
2.) "I Don't Know How to Be a Celebrity"
Which brings us to Washington's own cultivation of non-celebrity. He only gives interviews to promote new films, but he's not a cagey interviewer. In the four major profiles I've read, all of them given over the last four months, he's talked openly about his parents' divorce, his own history with his father, his children, even his relationship with his wife (and how she feels about Michelle Obama thinking he's hot). Some actors cultivate anonymity by keeping interviews focused on their craft, but Washington seemingly answers any question he's asked.
Because Washington's life is scandalous/gossip-worthy, however, the focus remains on his acting. Interviewers also love to emphasize that he's a non-celebrity: GQ told him "In some ways, you're a cipher. There's not much you put out there."
Washington's answer is just so perfect:
But that's not my job to put stuff out there. Sidney Poitier told me this years ago: "If they see you for free all week, they won't pay to see you on the weekend, because they feel like they've seen you. If you walk by the magazine section in the supermarket and they've known you all their life, there's no mystery. They can't take the ride." My professional work is being a better actor. I don't know how to be a celebrity.
"I don't know how to be a celebrity!" Seriously, that's perfect. What a way to endear yourself to your public, especially to men (and/or women) who dislike celebrity culture, then to say that you literally do not know how to do it. He also demonstrates his business acumen: even if he knew how, it'd be a stupid move. People wouldn't like him. [Sidenote: His logic is faulty. Some stars on the covers of magazines do great business. But he's correct that just being on the cover of a magazine, aka gossip-worthy, doesn't mean that your movies will do well.]
Now what's remarkable about this statement is the fact that it is embedded in an interview with a popular magazine. His picture was, in fact, on the cover of that magazine, which could be found in the check-out aisle just last month — only the magazine was GQ, not Us Weekly. He talks about his family and personal life, it's just that they're not scandalous enough to merit continued coverage. It's not that he's cagey, or an asshole, or annoyingly private — all characteristics that actually make people dislike a star when they hear about them. He's forthcoming and wholly affable in interviews. He loves to talk sports. He loves the Yankees. He loves his kids. He is such a Dad, a Grown-Up Bro. He doesn't have a cell phone and is only mildly annoyed that someone is running a Facebook page pretending to be him. He's a purely analog star, a student of the Hollywood old school. But it doesn't make him look stodgy or behind the times, the way that Tom Cruise's fumbling Twitter efforts do. He's outside of the game. He's above it. He's just doing what he does, being with his family, giving interviews, speaking truths. His daily code of life: read the bible. His advice to black men: put your slippers under the bed so you have to get on your knees in the morning.
I talk a lot about star production on this blog — about how stars and their teams work really hard to create images that resonate, that matter. The brilliance of Denzel is that his incredibly resonate image is posturing as the complete lack of one. He's the anti-celebrity, the devoted actor, a model of masculinity. A star who says he doesn't know how to be a celebrity. As our lives become more and more saturated with obvious manipulation — aesthetic, rhetorical, political — Denzel's anti-image is increasingly refreshing. But as I tell my students, being apolitical is a political position; the absence of politics is a political statement. So too with images: the anti-image is one of the most potent images of all.
9 Responses to "Acting, Anti-Celebrity, Masculinity: Denzel Just Does It"
Great post! Having watched Denzel since St. Elsewhere, I feel like he's always been the same as an actor: intense, precise & perfect for whatever role he's in, contrasting other TV actors who had to grow into their stardom (Hanks, Will Smith, Clooney).
You don't talk much about his racial identity in this account – how much of his non-celebrity do you attribute to his role of an A-list black star in an industry that often is quick to cut bait on non-white stars who cross controversial lines or fail to deliver at the box office? Given that Denzel's persona is such a blank slate, it seems particularly useful to continue to appeal to a crossover audience.
Firstly, love the blog and love the Classic Hollywood series on the Hairpin. Really excellent and enjoyable work.
I found this article interesting but a little bit problematic, especially conceiving of a star as picture personality plus (cultural?) capital. This discounts the role of extra textual discourse in the construction of a star image, as if star image = picture personalty + biographical information as published in magazine features, whereas I would classify star image = picture personality plus extra textual discourse involves everything other than the films including publicity materials, interviews, information from trade magazines, which political campaigns has the star been involved in, etc. The opening sentence of this piece asks "What do you know about Denzel Washington?" and follows the question with biographical information, where that is only a part of what makes up Denzel Washington, star image. I also query the statement "he's not a cultural star, per se" – what's classifies a cultural star as opposed to a star? There are stars whose personal life plays a greater role in the construction of their star image but I don't agree that makes them more cultural, just alters the complex polysemy of their image for us star scholars to examine
I also think that the terms 'masculine' and 'feminine' need to be defined further. Washington is functioning within a specific type of masculine that draws on a long tradition of stars disclaiming the work that is involved in acting and being a star. This in turn reinforces the authenticity required by star images to function effectively and believably. There are other types of masculinity where work, indeed excesses of work, function to demonstrate masculinity, for example Robert de Niro and Marlon Brando where their labour itself works to demonstrate masculinity.
I think it would be interesting to extend this article to included issues of race and nationality that are referred to briefly here. In many of his films he appears as representative of patriarchal authority – police, armed forces. We know that Hollywood loves a black president, but how do these discourses work with the construction of masculinity evident in his star image?
Thanks for publishing this star study and for the opportunity to leave comments. I'm doing my masters in masculinity, stardom and female spectatorship (Meriam Hansen-style) so I could talk about film stars and masculinity for days!
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He may have argued this. But I think that he probably also realizes that there's a bit of "black women don't want to see him go home with white women," either. He has a lot of black female fans, and there are some undercurrents about the relative lack of availability of good successful black men and a bit of resentment when they end up with white women.
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Astronomers observing a disk of matter spiralling into a black hole in our galaxy have discovered that the black hole periodically hurls the inner portion of the disk into space as jets travelling at near the speed of light.
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The Blind Can See
David Berry, 2002 Acrylic, sand, rain and pocket stuff on canvas, 80" x 56"
The Blind Can See is a tribute to Phyllis and Lyn Ott
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If not for the influence of Phyllis, I would have never painted any pictures of Meher Baba. Through stories and writing Phyllis provides, I am also under the influence of her late husband, Lyn Ott. Prior to my visit in June of 2002, I had not completed a painting for over two years and was trying to decide if painting belonged in my life at all. Now, it seems to me as if the last ten years of my life have come to focus in this exhibition. The entire show is a tribute to Phyllis, Lyn and the many who have been there along the way, including strangers, friends and angels. If I have met you at The Center, you are most certainly included.
I have long understood what it means to be an artist, but I did not know what it feels like to be an artist. This may not seem all that important, but an artist that does not create because of feeling is only a craftsman. Feeling or fervor drives an artist to create beyond regard to the proper way to do things or to satisfy some convention. An artists' artist is then someone who lives a life that centers around fervor, often at some personal expense and through their vision provides the fuel for those that are less than masters to grow. This awareness is what Phyllis has given me.
I had the chance to meet Lyn only one time. On one of my first visits to The Center around 1993 I came across a small group surrounding him on the porch of the Original Kitchen. At the time I did not know much about him, but I remember being impressed by his stories. I did not think of myself as a painter then, and there were other people to meet and other things to do that seemed more relevant to my life at the time. It was not until I later became friends with Phyllis that I got to know about Lyn through those who knew him and his writing.
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Mini Fruit Tartlets
Photo: Ryan Benyi; Styling: Stephana Bottom
Mini Fruit Tartlets are a simple, figure-flattering way to satisfy your sweet tooth.
Yield: 48 tartlets
Cost per Serving: $.47
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Chill: 2 Hours
Bake: 12 Minutes
Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 105
- Fat: 4g
- Saturated fat: 2g
- Protein: 1g
- Carbohydrate: 17g
- Fiber: 1g
- Cholesterol: 21mg
- Sodium: 21mg
- Cookies:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg plus 1 large egg yolk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Topping:
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 11-oz. jar lemon curd
- 2 pints assorted fruit, such as blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and kiwifruit
- 1/2 cup apricot jam
- 1. Make cookies: Mix flour, baking powder and salt. Beat butter and sugar until light, 2 minutes. Beat in egg, yolk and vanilla. Stir in flour mixture. Knead into a ball. Divide in half; form into disks. Wrap each in plastic; chill for 2 hours.
- 2. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment. Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut into 2-inch rounds. Transfer to baking sheets; leave 1 inch between cookies. Gather scraps, re-roll and cut out more circles. Repeat with second disk. Bake cookies until edges are golden, 12 minutes. Let cool.
- 3. Make topping: Beat cream with sugar until stiff peaks form. Stir 1/3 of whipped cream into lemon curd to lighten. Fold in remaining whipped cream. Keep chilled. Just before serving, top each cookie with a teaspoonful of lemon mixture. Divide fruit among tarts.
- 4. Melt jam in a pan over medium heat. Add 1 Tbsp. water; stir until liquid. Strain. Dab apricot mixture over fruit.
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Just a quick thank you from a teenager, who I'm sure will be completely outdated or outmoded in this communication just as soon as this sentence is finished. There, gone, to be replaced at the frontier of advancing words by something tremendously flashy. An enthralling podgram, that had me really thinking about language, not in a picky, analytical manner, but in a broad, appreciative manner, and that openess and wide armed embrace of words, and more importantly, acceptance of all language, all of which came from the balance of Mr. Fry's deliverance. Once again, thank you, and long may the entertainment continue.
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At The Coop?
I promised some pictures from our egg supplier, here ya go…
As I mentioned in the earlier post the crazy thing is these eggs are only about fifty, sixty cents more than we'd pay for store bought eggs. And we can see the chickens and meet the people who keep the chickens. I think that's pretty nifty. And the eggs are spectacular. When I've mentioned this to several people they've assumed that this wouldn't be possible wherever they are (Dad in Chicago, Sis in Minnesota) but it never hurts to keep your eyes peeled. I found this place driving back from the hospital with MJ.
And as I've mentioned earlier I'm a little leery about the whole modern 'organic' thing. I really prefer to buy as much as possible from folks with dirt on their hands.
And a reminder: eggs are good for you!


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Following the popular and critical success of Drive, Ryan Gosling reteams with director Nicolas Winding Refn for a film that is both more and less of the same: more vengeance, torture, blows to the head, and less movement, less dialogue, less significance. From its stately depiction of a neon-and-bokeh Bangkok (shot by Eyes Wide Shut's Larry Smith), to its hyper-Freudian, return-to-the-womb conclusion (cribbed from George Bataille's Ma mère), Only God Forgives is a great-looking but stilted drama, painfully obvious, studiously enigmatic, and boringly sadistic. Continue reading
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The Spielberg Hundred #005: The Magic of Special Effects
This is the complete screen recording of a paper I gave last month at a conference in Montreal, The Magic of Special Effects: Cinema, Technology, Reception, 10 November 2013. Aside from the final plenary talk by Tom Gunning, I was the last speaker at this intensive, 6-day conference, so I will plead a little bit of fatigue and befrazzlement; I mostly resisted the urge to rewrite my paper over the course of the week as I heard so many stimulating ideas from the other speakers, but I will no doubt feed some of that stimulation back into the next draft of my paper. What I presented was an early sketch of my chapter on Spielberg for a forthcoming book, and thanks to helpful comments and questions from other delegates, I have a better idea of what I need to do to develop it into a longer, stronger essay. I hope you enjoy this snapshot of a work-in-progress, but let me know in the comments section if you have suggestions for improvement. Although the finished chapter will explore in more historical depth the relationship between Spielberg and Industrial Light and Magic, what I presented here is an attempt to characterise what Spielberg does with visual effects set-pieces, and how the audience is embedded in a "spectacular venue" for the presentation of marvellous things.
The Spielberg Hundred #001: Introduction
I've been asked to contribute a chapter to a forthcoming anthology of extended essays on the work of Steven Spielberg, to be published in 2015. I'm going to be focusing on his use of special and visual effects, with particular interest in his longstanding relationship with the effects house Industrial Light and Magic. Aside from a couple of pieces on Georges Méliès, I've never done a study based on a single director, so this will be a fun exercise for me. I might even manage to produce a couple of articles out of it if it proves fruitful. Aside from his recent work, and a couple of films I re-watched during research for Performing Illusions, I haven't seen the old Spielbergs since I was firmly in their target demographic. His films defined my childhood cinematic experience. It's a toss-up whether Close Encounters was the first film I saw, or if it was Pete's Dragon, at age 3 (memory eludes me), and I followed avidly anything he made, or had a hand in. Continue reading
Spring Breakers Randomised
Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers is an oddity wrapped up in a conventional teen-drama that warps into some kind of day-glo fever dream of bikinis, Britney, and assault rifles. Ostensibly the tale of four girls who commit a violent robbery to fund their spring-break trip to Florida so that they don't miss out on the hedonistic, beer-bathing fun they imagine their peers are having. But it could just as easily be their heat-stroked collective hallucination. It is neither the lurid exploitation of Disney princesses it might seem to be on first glance (see accompanying image, above), nor the handwringing "won't-somebody-think-of-the-children", expose of "the Real Spring Break", though it has the scent of both those things about it. It's a little more haunting and confounding than that. It seems like a prime candidate for some randomisation, so I've subjected it to the process that will familiar to regular readers by now, and which can be recapped/introduced with a quick visit to some of the earlier entries in the series.
The randomiser has selected minute-marks 2, 24, 37, 54, and 83. That's a good spread across the whole of the film, but there's no telling what those images will yield. The first picture will be… Continue reading
Floating Weeds Randomised
The films of Yasujiro Ozu are probably the opposite of random in their structure and composition, so it seems rather perverse to make one his films the subject of this ongoing series of randomised film reviews. But that's not a good enough reason to avoid giving it a try, this time working with Ozu's gorgeous 1959 Floating Weeds, a remake of his own 1934 silent comedy-drama. It's also a good opportunity to sing the praises of Eureka's magnificent Blu-Ray edition of the film, from the Masters of Cinema series (though today's frame grabs are taken from a DVD – for an idea of the BD quality, this link should help). If you need a primer on the formal style of Ozu's films (though admittedly it just focuses on a few of the late works), I wrote one for my students a few years ago.
The rules are simple: I use a random number generator to give me five numbers, and these dictate the minute-marks of the frames I take from a DVD of the film. These three images then form the basis for a discussion of the film. The numbers are 7, 36, 41, 56, and 78, meaning that we begin with … Continue reading
345-Word Reviews: World War Z
Neither the calamity that its troubled production might have led you to expect, nor the triumph that its $250 million price-tag should lead you to demand, World War Zed offers a number of delights. This is a globalised disaster movie, told not from the perspective of bedraggled survivors who end up turning on each other in a desperate fight over dwindling supplies (the genre template laid down by Romero, and canonised most recently in The Walking Dead comics and TV series), but through the lens of a UN-led operation to find a solution to the zombie pandemic sweeping the planet. This omniscient overview sometimes dilutes what should be a terrifying vision of a world falling apart, because it gives an unwarranted sense of control over events, and the film plays out in a doggedly linear hop from one country to the next along a thread of tangential clues.
Holy Motors Randomised
Holy Motors is a cinephile odyssey, taking its viewers on a linear, perhaps cyclical journey through a series of variations on film history, performance, and identity. Or, with its continually shifting interplays between character and situation, we might think of it as a live-action replay of the ultimate meta-cartoon, Duck Amuck. The set-up is deceptively simple: we first meet Monsieur Oscar (Denis Lavant) as a businessman leaving his lavish home for work, waving goodbye to his loving family, and being collected by the driver of his white stretch limo, Céline (Édith Scob). On the seat next to him are the details of nine assignments he must complete today. Each one requires a different disguise and costume, and sends M. Oscar out of the car, onto the streets of Paris and into a different performance, for no visible audience (except us), and to no obvious purpose. We watch as he goes about his daily business of acting the roles that may keep families, business, art running from day to day. But we're never sure of his motives or his masters, nor whether there is a real M. Oscar underneath all of the layers of performance. Continue reading
Spectacular Attractions Video Podcast #004: Speaking for Ventriloquism
Last week, I traveled to Bournemouth to give a talk at the Arts University. I think I got lucky with the weather, and it was a pleasure to enjoy the mild temperatures, intermittent sunshine and bouts of dryness. The other pleasure was addressing Bournemouth's staff and students. They managed to sit still for a full hour while I pontificated about ventriloquism and cinema. This was the first outing for some new research I'm working on, drawn from a bigger (and long-gestating, oft-delayed) project on Cinema and Puppetry. It's coming along slowly, but it's getting there and gathering some speed now that I have more time to devote to it. AUB's Animation Research Pipeline talks (of which this was one) provides a space for people like me to share work in progress.
I made a complete screen recording of my talk, and while my voice is quite clearly recorded, some of the sound on the clips might need you to raise the volume once or twice. I hope you enjoy it, but I'd love to hear any comments you have, good or bad; it's not a short lecture, and the first half is quite theoretical, but I promise you it contains good stuff on Charlie McCarthy, The Great Gabbo, Lon Chaney in drag, Mel Gibson having a fight with a glove-puppet beaver, and tastefully coloured Keynote slides.
Here's the video. It's available in HD, which should help you if you want to read the text on the slides:
- If you'd like to hear more of the wonderful Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy radio shows, there are plenty of episodes freely available online, especially at the Internet Archive. I have previously posted on this site their 1936 short film Nut Guilty, which is well worth ten minutes of your time. I refer in the talk to a saucy exchange between Charlie and Mae West: you can hear part of it here.
- You can found out much more about Steven Connor's superb book Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism here. The book's website includes many links to further information and articles.
Things You Need to Know About Le Mépris
[BLOG IN PROGRESS. I started this post hoping it might be of benefit to my students. As much as I love the film, I know it can be off-putting to non-film specialists, and to plenty of other people unfamiliar with Jean-Luc Godard's style of filmmaking. I intend it to be an ongoing post, and will add to it periodically, so if you have any thoughts about the film, or anything you think that viewers need to know about Le Mépris in order to get maximum interest from it, leave a comment below with your ideas and suggestions.]
In summary, it's part domestic drama, in which a man tries to find out why his wife no longer loves him, and part meta-cinematic backstage dramatisation of the adaptation process, in which that man struggles with his job as a screenwriter on an American film of Homer's Odyssey. Filmed as the Hollywood studio system collapsed, Le Mépris is a meditation on the relationship between art and life, film and reality.
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Peter Tscherkassky's Instructions
I started writing this post about the films of Peter Tscherkassky nearly three years ago, and never finished it: that happens sometimes, if I don't have time to complete a bit of writing, or I lose my train of thought, or if I come across an article that says exactly what I wanted to say. I can't remember what happened to this one, but I was reminded of the unfinished piece when I attended a talk by Tscherkassky at the newly opened EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam. It was the first time I'd seen the films projected on film, and it reignited an interest that had begun for me after seeing them on DVD and trying to use some of them in my teaching. Listening to him explain the incredibly painstaking methods he uses to create his films made me think the least I could do was knock out a few words in response. Continue reading


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These are wonderful. I've never had a raspberry daiquiri, and the flavor was delicious - better than strawberry! And waaay better than using a bottled mix. They take a little time, but they're worth it. I used Captain Morgan rum - perfect. Cheers! Step-by-step photos on my blog: http://tinyurl.com/26qqh5j
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Strategies for Effectively Managing Legacy Systems
In this ThoughtWorks Quarterly Technology Briefing, Amit Uttam and Derek Longmuir discuss what a legacy system is, the typical approaches to dealing with legacy systems, the cost of legacy systems, replacement strategies and techniques, technology asset portfolios, system health checks, executing a migration plan, "strangler" vs phased approaches, and continually evolving your system.
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World Series of Fighting returned to NBC Sports Network on Saturday night for its sophomore effort, Arlovski vs. Johnson, from Revel Resort and Casino in Atlantic City, N.J.
The main event featured a heavyweight bout between former UFC champion Andrei Arlovski and former UFC welterweight Anthony "Rumble" Johnson. Coming into the fight, Johnson said this was a one-and-done stop at heavyweight before he returns to 205 pounds.
Andrei Arlovksi vs. Anthony Johnson
On a four-fight winning streak entering the fight, Arlovski started strong, looking confident, working his jab and trying to take control of the fight. Johnson fired off power combinations just enough throughout the opening round to keep Arlovski from overtaking the fight.
Then, in the waning seconds of the round, Johnson followed Arlovski's best efforts of the fight by connecting with two crushing right hooks that dropped the Belarusian.
Had there been five seconds more on the clock, Johnson likely would have finished the fight right then. There wasn't, however, and he didn't.
The fight went on for two more rounds, but Johnson's right hand took the sting out of Arlovski's offense and left his timing slightly out of whack.
Even at 230 pounds, Johnson surprisingly had enough firepower to keep attacking Arlovksi and keep him off of his game. Johnson fought to a well-earned unanimous decision victory, but stuck by his claims that he has no intention of making heavyweight his home.
"The man hit like a ton of bricks," said Johnson. "No, these guys like Andrei Arlovski are too big for Anthony Johnson."
He left the door to heavyweight cracked open, saying that if World Series of Fighting asked him to do it, he'd likely do it again.
Marlon Moraes vs. Tyson Nam
Marlon Moraes came into this fight with Tyson Nam as one of the hottest bantamweight prospects on the radar, having defeated UFC veteran Miguel Torres in his first World Series of Fighting appearance.
He did nothing to dispel that accolade.
It took a while for Moraes and Nam to finally engage, but when they did, it was explosive, and Moraes emerged with the bigger bang. He gradually started to take over the fight with his punch/kick combinations, but that finished with a blast, dropping Nam with a kick to the head and finishing with a few follow-up punches for good measure.
"I was ready for the war," Moraes commented after the fight. "Maybe this was the reason I knock him out because I was ready for fight 100 percent all the 15 minutes."
Paulo Filho vs. David Branch
Saturday night was Paulo Filho's latest step in trying to get his once promising career back on track, following longtime struggles with substance abuse.
Filho nearly didn't make it to the fight after a reported panic attack nearly halted his travel plans, but he made it to the fight.
David Branch gave Filho no reprieve, taking him to the mat round after round, grounding and pounding him. Branch couldn't put Filho away, however, even though he had Filho's arms pinned for a couple minutes of the second round and had free reign with punches.
Filho mounted little to no offense in the fight, but somehow survived all 15 minutes.
Branch scored a unanimous decision victory, giving him wins in both of his fights under the World Series of Fighting banner, but this one had to be special for him, considering his reverence for Filho.
"He was one of my idol's coming up," said Branch before shifting his focus to the bigger picture.
"I've been hearing some stuff about title shots, I hope I proved myself here tonight."
Josh Burkman vs. Aaron Simpson
Aaron Simpson pursued Josh Burkman from the opening bell, shooting for a takedown, but settling for pressing him to the cage. Even with his countering style, it was Burkman that took control of the fight early, doing a lot of damage early, dropping Simpson to one knee with a hard right hand midway through the first round.
Simpson wanted to get the fight to the mat, but he couldn't find his takedown timing before Burkman teed off on him with a flurry of punches, eventually knocking him out with a knee to the face a little over three minutes into the bout.
World Series of Fighting president Ray Sefo mentioned before the bout that the winner would likely fight Jon Fitch at WSOF 3 on June 14 in Las Vegas, but Burkman didn't seem so sure.
"I'm going to talk to them about it. I think I deserve a title shot," he said after the fight. "I've beat (Gerald) Harris; I've beat (Aaron) Simpson. Those are two of the best outside of the UFC.
"I think I've earned my title spot. I think Jon Fitch needs to earn his spot and then we can fight for the title."
JZ Cavalcante vs. Justin Gaethje
Up-and-coming lightweight Justin Gaethje stormed Strikeforce and Dream veteran Gesias "JZ" Cavalcante from the opening bell, unleashing a furious striking attack, rocking Cavalcante with overhand rights and mixing in knees.
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It was a right elbow a little over two minutes into the fight, however, that opened a gash over Cavalcante's left eye, causing the ringside doctor's to take a look and determine the fight should not continue.
"The bell rings, move forward, don't take a step backward. That's what I do," said Gaethje after the fight, describing his relentless style.
The victory improves the Coloradoan's record to 8-0, making him a lightweight force to be reckoned with.
Main Bouts:
-Anthony Johnson def. Andrei Arlovski via Unanimous Decision, R3
-Marlon Moraes def. Tyson Nam via KO (Head Kick and Punches) at 2:55, R1
-David Branch def. Paulo Filho via Unanimous Decision, R3
-Josh Burkman def. Aaron Simpson via TKO (Knee) at 3:04, R1
-Justin Gaethje def. Gesias Cavalcante via TKO (Doctor's Stoppage) at 2:27, R1
Preliminary Bouts:
-Danillo Villefort def. Kris McCray via Split Decision, R3
-Rick Glenn def. Alexandre Pimentel via KO (Punches) at 1:51, R3
-Waylon Lowe def. Cameron Dollar via KO (Punch) at 2:58, R1
-Richard Patishnock def. Igor Gracie via TKO (Doctor's Stoppage) at 5:00, R1
-Ozzy Dugulubgov def. Chris Wade via Unanimous Decision, R3
-Brenson Hansen def. Tom Marcellino via KO (Flying Knee) at 3:24, R2
-Bill Algeo def. Frank Buenafuente via Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) at 4:36, R2
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Great main event! Love both guys!
This fight card was really good. Burkman looked really sharp in his victory. I don't know what happened to Paulo Filho and Arlovski hung in there but didn't pull it off. I think Arlovski could have tko'd Johnson but didn't want to take the risk of getting stopped himself.
Agreed. Arlovski could have finished johnson. Also, arlovski has a split second delayed reaction to punches. He should have 2 more bouts on the winning side and hang it up.
He def. had Johnson hurt a few times and looked like he could have finished if he went in. I know he's older now but his body looked a lot different then it used to. I remember him being shredded. Nothing against the guy at all, I've always liked him. He gave a young AJ a good fight though.
I think at this point in his career Arlovski really needs to consider if the fight game is for him. I think he would probably make a fantastic coach/trainer, but as a fighter himself, I personally think his best days are WAY behind him.
Arlovski is officially done…He looked like a shell of himself from his UFC days. His punches had NO snap and he doesn't use his Sambo anymore…Ride off in the sunset brother before you get yourself hurt!
Sad to see but you're right. He should retire and help the young guys coming up.
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