re-animating

i havent posted here in quite a while.  i could list a bunch of reasons why but instead i’ll only list one:
1. i’ve been working on this post about how under-appreciated primate actors are, but, and this underscores my point, i can barely find any information.  i mean, the chimp in mxp isn’t even credited [...]

Month of Terror Part 2

The Month of Terror Continues!
October 4th: The Innocents (Clayton, 1961)

Apparently the inspiration for 2001’s The Others, The Innocents is a lot more creepy and yet a lot more overblown. Deborah Kern had Scott’s head exploding (in a bad way) with old-school My-Fair-Lady style acting, but I thought the imagery of the movie more than made up for it. [...]

my fair lady

language
our use of language determines our social class
upward mobility is the ability to assimilate to different registers
the language of shakespeare and milton
a stylized lower class
prettying up the poor
when is this movie even set?
why are there flowers everywhere?
i know eliza is a flower girl
but what’s the symbolism
it reminds me of wallace’s essay on use

Month of Terror

Keith’s Month of Terror has officially started. You can read Keith’s post, but the deal is basically that I have to watch one horror movie a day, no exceptions. I bent the rules a little by allowing TV into the mix if I watch at least 90 minutes worth (solely so I can get my X-files fix), [...]