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Viewing Log #21: Bleed heat by night [11/16/09 - 11/22/09]
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Viewing Log #21: Bleed heat by night [11/16/09 - 11/22/09]
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight —Bring yourself, roll Curb Your Enthusiasm , 7th Season [Larry David, 2009] Hard to beat "The Table Read," no doubt, among so many episodes this season, but, once again, LD proves how smart he is about people's petty shit and everybody's desire for a ... Viewing Log #21: Bleed heat by night [11/16/09 - 11/22/09]

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Alain à la recherche #3: Night and Fog and Muriel
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Alain à la recherche #3: Night and Fog and Muriel
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight [The Resnais series playing at the PFA this month and next is part of a broader, traveling retrospective with a concurrent run in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center and a proposed stop at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image in early 2010.] The third ... Alain à la recherche #3: Night and Fog and Muriel

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Convergence for my battle tactics (11/18/09)
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Convergence for my battle tactics (11/18/09)
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight (1) (2) —Rap my soul awake why don't you: 1 , 2 Convergence for my battle tactics (11/18/09)

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Vinyl is heavy and Vitti is forever #16
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Vinyl is heavy and Vitti is forever #16
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — bry Ryland Walker Knight —...on the rich kids. Vinyl is heavy and Vitti is forever #16

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Alain à la recherche #2: Stavinsky...
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Alain à la recherche #2: Stavinsky...
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight [The Resnais series playing at the PFA this month and next is part of a broader, traveling retrospective with a concurrent run in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center and a proposed stop at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image in early 2010.] Some might ... Alain à la recherche #2: Stavinsky...

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Viewing Log #20: Sporting lint [11/9/09 - 11/15/09]
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Viewing Log #20: Sporting lint [11/9/09 - 11/15/09]
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight —All things shining. Most of the week was spent not watching movies. But, as happens with an active calendar, the wait for the weekend brought me some special sights made richer by my recess. More Resnais, mostly, but also some time for some TV comedy. If you follow ... Viewing Log #20: Sporting lint [11/9/09 - 11/15/09]

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A conjunction of quotations #7
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A conjunction of quotations #7
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight — Midtown 120 Blues 1. Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. — Walker Evans 2. Color, at the moment, has, for me, a great importance, and I feel a kind of return to a ... A conjunction of quotations #7

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Vinyl is heavy and Vitti is forever #15
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Vinyl is heavy and Vitti is forever #15
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight —Use two hands Vinyl is heavy and Vitti is forever #15

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Viewing Log #19: Sea salt swordfish [11/2/09 - 11/8/09]
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Viewing Log #19: Sea salt swordfish [11/2/09 - 11/8/09]
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight — Beaming and leaning Last Year at Marienbad [Alain Resnais, 1961] # I could watch this movie a million times. A lot funnier than I remembered, though I remembered it being funny, I think. Another reason to own a Blu-ray player, no doubt. I wrote a smarter, ... Viewing Log #19: Sea salt swordfish [11/2/09 - 11/8/09]

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Jeanne Dielman: Solitude's a fortress?
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Jeanne Dielman: Solitude's a fortress?
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight —The lid! It took Danny some time to get me this copy of Criterion's beautiful new edition of Akerman's masterpiece, and then it took me a little time to get my image-essay together. But I have, now, with another assist from Danny on the gif-making, and you can take a ... Jeanne Dielman: Solitude's a fortress?

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Alain à la recherche #1: Marienbad
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Alain à la recherche #1: Marienbad
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight [The Resnais series playing at the PFA this month and next is part of a broader, traveling retrospective with a concurrent run in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center and a proposed stop at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image in early 2010.] This was the ... Alain à la recherche #1: Marienbad

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Represent Repertory #1: Fight sadness
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Represent Repertory #1: Fight sadness
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight The day after I returned to the Bay Area, I saw the new PFA film calendar online and tweeted twice ( 1 , 2 ) about it. But that doesn't quite do justice to how cool a "Welcome Home!" these next two, final months of 2009 promise to be in my backyard cinematheque. A year ... Represent Repertory #1: Fight sadness

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Convergence for how air can hang (11/4/09)
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Convergence for how air can hang (11/4/09)
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight —The thick of it rings a round ringing Convergence for how air can hang (11/4/09)

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Flare it, flip it, crack and burn it. More 'Formers.
vinylisheavy.blogspot.com - 19 days ago
Flare it, flip it, crack and burn it. More 'Formers.
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight :: —Quick, erase it! Danny helped me out a ton with this latest image-essay, primarily by putting together some animated gifs. You can find the piece at The Auteurs Notebook . Danny asked me to make one for him after that "study in orange" I posted here earlier in ... Flare it, flip it, crack and burn it. More 'Formers.

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Vinyl is heavy and Vitti is forever #14
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Vinyl is heavy and Vitti is forever #14
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight —Lost in a laugh Vinyl is heavy and Vitti is forever #14

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Qu'est-ce que c'est? Convergence?
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Qu'est-ce que c'est? Convergence?
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight Surprise fowl marked for murder Qu'est-ce que c'est? Convergence?

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Viewing Log #18: Saints break stains and blue runs red [10/26/09 - 11/1/09]
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Viewing Log #18: Saints break stains and blue runs red [10/26/09 - 11/1/09]
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight This second week back in the Bay has been awfully full of commitments that have kept me from the movies. I've spent most of the week looking at Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles [Chantal Akerman, 1975] # in preparation for an overdue image-essay that ... Viewing Log #18: Saints break stains and blue runs red ...

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Two Jacks. Or, No way, Jose!
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Two Jacks. Or, No way, Jose!
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Claire Twisselman Call me a grinchess: I don't care! Most of the people I love the most live for Halloween. I don't. Straight up. In fact, it's pretty basic: I hate it. Sure, I've had some fun times. But, seriously, as I've gotten older, rampant costuming and no-mystery ghoulish behavior ... Two Jacks. Or, No way, Jose!

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MOONWALK: THE ADAPTATION
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MOONWALK: THE ADAPTATION
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Steven Boone It all comes down to what you believe, because none of us knew the man. I believe Michael Jackson was a good guy. I believe he never harmed anyone's child. I believe he was one of those rare people who tried to apply his otherworldly talent to healing some of the basic, eternal ... MOONWALK: THE ADAPTATION

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Convergence for your keening kith (10/28/09)
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Convergence for your keening kith (10/28/09)
— vinylisheavy.blogspot.com — by Ryland Walker Knight Losses roll, barrel, fall and float so Species size up and history can hope. Convergence for your keening kith (10/28/09)

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