August 2010
It hasn't gotten any less keen. →
“In order to exist rationally, Pnin had taught himself never to remember Mira...”
– Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
rien du tout
I miss you. I love you.
City Lights
This is an excerpt from my senior thesis. It’s an exploration of silent film, and how its unique visual language was necessarily lost forever with the advent of sound. Charlie Chaplin held out against sound for a long, long time. In 1931 - four years after The Jazz Singer changed the game - he released City Lights, his penultimate silent film. Here’s what I have to say about it.
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Star Witness - Neko Case
