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Announcing the Misunderstood Blog-a-thon: May 16-20, 2007

September 13, 2021April 12, 2007 by Culture Snob

Gene Hackman: Forever 'Misunderstood' Have you ever read or heard a discussion of a movie that made you think, They just don’t get it? Have you ever wondered, Am I the only person who saw the movie that way? Culture Snob is hosting a forum for essays, arguments, and provocations on misunderstood movies. The blog-a-thon will run Wednesday, May 16, through Sunday, May 20, although I won’t turn my nose up at contributions that arrive before then. The premise is that movies are marketed and evaluated coarsely and simplistically, and that they often contain a richness that’s never mined by critics and casual audiences.

Tagged: Blog-a-thons, Misunderstood Blog-a-thon, Misunderstood Movies, Self-Involvement

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Music

The Band-Name Project

September 13, 2021October 25, 2006 by Culture Snob

You hear it and you cringe immediately. Who the fuck thought of that stupid-ass name? So Culture Snob here introduces a regular feature, offering free band names to whoever wants them.

Tagged: Band Names, Self-Involvement

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Ignorance and Taste: Catching Up on Links

September 13, 2021September 22, 2006 by Culture Snob

How ignorant are you? Cinemarati recently asked its readers: “What’s your big, embarrassing, Never-Seen-It movie?”

Tagged: Links, Neko Case, Netflix, Self-Involvement, Star Wars

Movies

Nothing New Under the Sun

September 13, 2021July 13, 2006 by Culture Snob

It was with great horror (okay, mild annoyance at myself) that I returned to comments by Dan Jardine at Cinemarati and saw a striking resemblance to some ideas I expressed on Superman Returns.

Tagged: Self-Involvement, Superman, Superman Retunrs

Movies

The Movie I Watch the Most

September 13, 2021July 3, 2006 by Culture Snob

What movie have you seen the most? What does it mean to you? That’s the premise of Slate’s puzzlingly titled “The Movie I’ve Seen the Most” from last week. Spike Lee offers West Side Story without explanation. Peter Farrelly says Something Wild.

Tagged: Antonia's Line, Self-Involvement, Ways of Watching

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Movies

Films in 17 Syllables

September 13, 2021April 25, 2006 by Culture Snob

In response to a call for movie-related haiku, I submitted the following on Robert Altman’s The Player: “The pitch, in 10 words:
Griffin Mill kills the writer,
and he steals his girl.”

Tagged: Haiku, Language, Poetry, Robert Altman, Self-Involvement

Music

Extraordinary Music from the Margins of 2005

September 13, 2021December 28, 2005 by Culture Snob

Twelve albums (and one stray song) from 2005 that I loved, most of them in the indie-rock vein and all of them a bit off the beaten path.

Tagged: A Frames, Against Me!, Amy Rigby, Andrew Bird, Asha Bhosle, Bloc Party, Calla, Favorite Things, Fiona Apple, Hot Hot Heat, Kronos Quartet, New Pornographers, Self-Involvement, Summer at Shatter Creek, The Frames, The Kills

Sports

The Wheels Are Offically Off

September 13, 2021July 1, 2004 by Culture Snob

Red Sox fans have officially gone apeshit over the team’s performance.

Tagged: Baseball, Boston Red Sox, Red Sox, Self-Involvement

Movies

The Unbearable Expense of Convenience

September 13, 2021June 17, 2004 by Culture Snob

Netflix has ruined my life. Oh, it’s not quite that bad, but it has certainly altered the role of movies in my life. While they have been important to me, probably to a fault, now films have become the sun around which our leisure time orbits, to the point that leisure time isn’t quite so leisurely.

Tagged: Netflix, Self-Involvement, Ways of Watching

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Movies

Perspective and the Past

September 13, 2021June 8, 2004 by Culture Snob

A marker of getting old – not old old, but well beyond one’s 20s – is recognizing the flaws of something once adored in youth. Twice recently I’ve had that experience, once while watching Peter Weir’s Fearless (from 1993) and more recently with Dolores Claiborne, the 1995 movie directed by Taylor Hackford and adapted from the Stephen King novel by Tony Gilroy.

Tagged: Dolores Claioborne, Dramas, Reviews, Self-Involvement, Stephen King, Taylor Hackford

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