savoring the unhurried edit, the additional wide shot of the supporting character walking away — a double breath in which we can think.

"So to encourage people not to engage in piracy, they’re going to force everyone to watch yet another annoying, time-wasting, gratification-delaying warning screen that can only be avoided by engaging in piracy. They’re purposefully making the movie-playing experience worse for honest paying customers."

DVD cover (2011)Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy“ (2011) doesn’t waste a dollar or a minute, a face or a shot.

“A Prairie Home Companion”, so what?

I can listen to this long running show for months and months, while doing weekend chores, and think only “Eh, there they go again”. Sometimes the music is great; usually it doesn’t suck. And the variety of skits and gimmicks are, after all this time, safely predictable, steadfast.

And every week I listen as Garrison Keillor continues the same story he’s been telling over 2 or 3 decades, in that same voice, with a narrative style like a spring lake’s sun-broken sheets of ice bumping against each other, as they melt into something else. It’s like half listening to an old friend who repeats himself, as the tea grows cool in my cup.

Then, every once in a while, the rutty rambling, sliding and shifting nudges me out of the micro and into the macro — onto the desolate prairie that no one settled, until there was no place else. Then for a minute, I slip beneath the deep water, immersed in something that was hidden. Every once in a while, like a hypnotist who made me forget he was even speaking or that I was listening, Garrison completely nails it.

Then I listen with both ears, and I remember what I’m listening for. On the prairie I’ve never been to, in the waters where we’ll all sink or swim.

Mykl

2 parents lost their daughter,
2 boys lost their big sister.
Everyone is ruined
where it always rains:
Seattle.

The Killing” (2011)

The Killing” (2011) folds interesting supporting characters into the pilot episode without explaining who they are, until later in the season. It does this well.

The “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) LEGO sets that never existed.
We like the diorama of the Dawn of Man.

The “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) LEGO sets that never existed.

We like the diorama of the Dawn of Man.

Caine’s Arcade is a solid little documentary with a heart of gold. It deserved to go viral.

(Source: daringfireball.net)

Adding Ernie Kovacs to our Netflix queue.

"You get mud on your trouser or horse shit; you don’t rub it off. You let it dry; you let it set awhile. Then you brush it off, nice and easy."

Blu-ray/DVDWhich Frankenstein movie would be the best double feature with “The Skin I Live In”?

posterDownton Abbey” (2011) introduces a stew of characters in episode 1, then stirs the pot in episode 2.

Captivated by season 1.

Filling out our exploration of Tom Tykwer’s filmography.

“The Secret of Kells” (2009) is a delightfully illuminated deviation from the 3D animation of recent years.

The Secret of Kells” (2009) is a delightfully illuminated deviation from the 3D animation of recent years.

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