everybody's gotta learn sometime

Ever-increasing choice was supposed to mean the end of the blockbuster. It has had the opposite effect.

“Perhaps the best explanation of why this might be so was offered in 1963. In “Formal Theories of Mass Behaviour”, William McPhee noted that a disproportionate share of the audience for a hit was made up of people who consumed few products of that type. (Many other studies have since reached the same conclusion.) A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read “The Lost Symbol”, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.”

The Economist | A World of Hits

"Chastity––the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions." - Aldous Huxley

Gawno.com | Erotic Movie Posters from the Past

"Wisdom tells me that I am Nothing. Love tells me that I am everything. Between the two my life flows." - Nisargadatta Maharaj

For two years (1985-1987), John Hughes and I wrote letters back and forth. He told me - in long hand black felt tip pen on yellow legal paper - about life on a film set and about his family. I told him about boys, my relationship with my parents and things that happened to me in school. [...]

"I can't tell you how much I like your comments about my movies. Nor can I tell you how helpful they are to me for future projects. I listen. Not to Hollywood. I listen to you. I make these movies for you. Really. No lie. There's a difference I think you understand."

We'll Know When We Get There | Sincerely, John Hughes

master of the flying guillotine

I am going to start putting up movie-related things here.  Instead of reviews, I will just post trailers.  Trailers of movies that I like.