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weekend doings
Sep. 26th, 2004 10:17 pmThis weekend
I saw two films, Shrek 2 and Motorcycle Diaries. The latter contains the gorgeous Gael Garcia Bernal who just gets better with every movie I see him in. He is so wonderfully understated in his acting; he's the most subsuming-his-own-person-in-the-role actor on the screen I know. And one of the most versatile. And also one of the hunkiest! If you haven't seen it: it's a film by Walter Salles (who's Brazilian I believe), based on the diaries kept by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara when he went on a trip through America (Argentina to Chile to Peru) with a friend in 1952. It's a sort of coming-to-political-age, and set in absolutely beautiful countryside. It's the first film that's made me want to go to South America. Shrek featured MY DUDLEY, OMG. If you've seen it you'll know whom I mean! No images on the web, for some reason. Or at least ungooglable.
I wrote two lectures, Intro to Visual Theories and Intro to Film Form and Aesthetics plus the seminars to go with them (devising exercises, rewinding videos, making photocopies). In Film Form, they'll have to analyse Run Lola Run (the first 5 minutes) and in Visual Theories they will have to sort postcards in chronological order and draw an imaginative map of their own version of art history. Much of what I wrote was, ahem, culled from Elkins's brilliant Stories of Art and from websites on Kant and Clive Bell... Films we're focusing on in Film Form: Rashomon, Bicycle Thieves, Pierrot le fou, Wavelength by Michael Snow, Run Lola Run and I shall be foisting Kuch Kuch Hota Hai on them as well, also bits of Triumph of the Will which always elicits problematic enthusiasm.
I read 3 1/2 plays, three by Ibsen -- A Doll's House, which I'd read before and seen performed but it really is a very impressive and involving play, Ghosts which is apparently very popular and was hugely controversial in teh 1880s but I think it has dated; and The Wild Duck which is totally weird and intense but which I'd love to see performed; it is almost unbearably tense. I'm 1/2 way through Strindberg's Miss Julie - a rather shocking play from 1888 which contains the lines, spoken by a servant to the mistress of the house: You smalltime whore, you conniving bitch... (I can't remember the exact lines but very in-your-face for 1888!). The good thing about plays is that you can get through a lot of them in a short time. :-) They can also teach writers a lot about dialogue!
I bought an indoor guinea pig hutch because the nights are gettin' cold (and the days)
I cooked ratatouille twice.
I wanked twice but had no sexual intercourse (marriage, eh!!!).
I did not:
Write any HP fic
Read any fanfic
Write any of my article
Do any washing (so have nothing to wear for my lectures tomorrow, aargh!)
Look at LJ until now
Answer any emails
Nor even read any emails!
Feel bad
In fact, I feel quite cheerful these days. More on that later, perhaps.
I saw two films, Shrek 2 and Motorcycle Diaries. The latter contains the gorgeous Gael Garcia Bernal who just gets better with every movie I see him in. He is so wonderfully understated in his acting; he's the most subsuming-his-own-person-in-the-role actor on the screen I know. And one of the most versatile. And also one of the hunkiest! If you haven't seen it: it's a film by Walter Salles (who's Brazilian I believe), based on the diaries kept by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara when he went on a trip through America (Argentina to Chile to Peru) with a friend in 1952. It's a sort of coming-to-political-age, and set in absolutely beautiful countryside. It's the first film that's made me want to go to South America. Shrek featured MY DUDLEY, OMG. If you've seen it you'll know whom I mean! No images on the web, for some reason. Or at least ungooglable.
I wrote two lectures, Intro to Visual Theories and Intro to Film Form and Aesthetics plus the seminars to go with them (devising exercises, rewinding videos, making photocopies). In Film Form, they'll have to analyse Run Lola Run (the first 5 minutes) and in Visual Theories they will have to sort postcards in chronological order and draw an imaginative map of their own version of art history. Much of what I wrote was, ahem, culled from Elkins's brilliant Stories of Art and from websites on Kant and Clive Bell... Films we're focusing on in Film Form: Rashomon, Bicycle Thieves, Pierrot le fou, Wavelength by Michael Snow, Run Lola Run and I shall be foisting Kuch Kuch Hota Hai on them as well, also bits of Triumph of the Will which always elicits problematic enthusiasm.
I read 3 1/2 plays, three by Ibsen -- A Doll's House, which I'd read before and seen performed but it really is a very impressive and involving play, Ghosts which is apparently very popular and was hugely controversial in teh 1880s but I think it has dated; and The Wild Duck which is totally weird and intense but which I'd love to see performed; it is almost unbearably tense. I'm 1/2 way through Strindberg's Miss Julie - a rather shocking play from 1888 which contains the lines, spoken by a servant to the mistress of the house: You smalltime whore, you conniving bitch... (I can't remember the exact lines but very in-your-face for 1888!). The good thing about plays is that you can get through a lot of them in a short time. :-) They can also teach writers a lot about dialogue!
I bought an indoor guinea pig hutch because the nights are gettin' cold (and the days)
I cooked ratatouille twice.
I wanked twice but had no sexual intercourse (marriage, eh!!!).
I did not:
Write any HP fic
Read any fanfic
Write any of my article
Do any washing (so have nothing to wear for my lectures tomorrow, aargh!)
Look at LJ until now
Answer any emails
Nor even read any emails!
Feel bad
In fact, I feel quite cheerful these days. More on that later, perhaps.