Monthly Archives: July 2009

In Other News

By Jens Haas | Published: July 23, 2009
You just cannot appreciate the beauty of a Palin/Cheney ticket for 2012 without taking a close look at some of the regrettable frictions within the Bush/Cheney White House. Time.com’s Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf close this gap in “Inside Bush and Cheney’s Final Days” (here). My two favorite, admittedly flashy quotes from it, on Vice [...]
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Another Day, Another Traffic Cone 22

By Jens Haas | Published: July 20, 2009
Yesterday I watched Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse. As my co-viewer nicely put it, an “intensely pointless, intense and pointless, pointlessly intense (and so on)” movie. Indeed, in a conversation with Mark Rothko, Antonioni once described his movies as empty but precise. So maybe my co-viewer wasn’t too far off. Great photography though, especially towards the end. [...]
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Progression

By Jens Haas | Published: July 14, 2009
Recently, I watched Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut.” I guess there are two things you can take away from that movie. First, that apparently there comes a time in a man’s life, including the lives of very good filmmakers, when your thoughts more or less exclusively revolve around peeking at the naked female body one [...]
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