February 2010
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
– Balzac
Woody Allen Week: Husbands and Wives (1992) →
TO LOVE SOMEBODY
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mindful, Mary Oliver
Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It was what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over in joy, and acclamation. Nor am I talking about the exceptional, the fearful, the dreadful, the very extravagant - but of the...
Woody Allen Week: Match Point (2005)
Logan knocks it out of the park with his essay on Match Point today…
brightwalldarkroom:
THE MISERY AGENT
by Logan Antill
Near the conclusion to Match Point Chris tells the ghost of Nola that when the time came to kill her he found he was able to pull the trigger. This confession doesn’t surprise us, nor does it perturb Nola’s ghost.
By the end of the film Chris’ orchestration of his...