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Ozu2 by Lewis Saul
Today: *29. Dekigokoro (Passing Fancy) (9/17/33) (101 min.) [Silent B&W] [buy it here]*30. Haha wo kowazuya (A Mother Should Be Loved) (5/11/34) (93 min.) [Silent B&W] [buy it here]*31. Ukikusa monogatari (A Story of Floating…
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Chekhov on Critics, Advertising Men, Lawyers, Doctors, and Jerks
<<<Critics are like horse-flies rthat prevent the horse from ploughing. — Chekhov>>> He also said that stories should have neither a beginning nor an end — that advertising is the very essence of democracy…
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This just in: Northwestern University Press Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize
Brian Boudrey sends along this announcement: Northwestern University’s Poetry and Poetics Colloquium proudly announces a partnership with Northwestern University Press for the inaugural Drinking Gourd chapbook poetry prize, a first‐book award for poets of color.…
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Lewis Saul, Guest Blogger October 30-November 6
This week we welcome back Lewis Saul for a week of posts about the films of Yasujiro Ozu. Lewis is a composer who lives in Tucson, AZ. He studied composition at Juilliard and with Nadia…
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Ozu1 by Lewis Saul
"I think that Ozu is the greatest director ever to work in the history of cinema, and if I had to choose his competitor it would be Mizoguchi and if I lived on a…
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BAP 2011 Comics continued (Jennifer Grotz) by Nin Andrews
Read the complete poem here.