All Consuming : Carrick

Consuming "The Lovers - Criterion Collection"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:56:11 GMT

The Lovers - Criterion Collection

Consumed "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:26:22 GMT

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

by Julian Schnabel

Consuming "Something Fresh (The Collector's Wodehouse)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:19:34 GMT

Something Fresh (The Collector's Wodehouse)

by P. G. Wodehouse

Consumed "Heyday: A Novel"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:18:27 GMT

Heyday: A Novel

by Kurt Andersen

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Consumed "In Defense of Food"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:08:07 GMT

In Defense of Food

by Michael Pollan

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Consuming "Three Days of the Condor"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:26:04 GMT

Three Days of the Condor

by Sydney Pollack

Consumed "The Wizard of Oz (Three-Disc Collector's Edition)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:34:26 GMT

The Wizard of Oz (Three-Disc Collector's Edition)

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Consumed "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:34:02 GMT

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)

by J.K. Rowling

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Consumed "Paris, Texas"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:54:24 GMT

Paris, Texas

by Wim Wenders

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A story about "Paris, Texas"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:54:24 GMT

Paris, Texas

by Wim Wenders

I’ve seen this movie perhaps five times. The first time was on the Bravo channel way back in 1985 or 86. It changed my young life. I was blown away by the mood, the photography, the music. I began watching more European films after that. It was an awakening.

A few years later I saw it on the big screen. It was way better. I then saw it on VHS once or twice after that just to keep it fresh in my mind. Those vast Texan landscapes just killed me. The color of each image captivated me. By this time I was hooked.

And then last week I watched it again after about a 15 year hiatus. It was different this time. Those landscapes are still amazing and the photography is still gorgeous (even on TV), but this time it was the story that got to me. It’s a story (written by Sam Shepard) that can positively devastate you. Anyone with a little life experience under the belt will feel it. It’s beautifully heartbreaking in every detail.

Consumed "The Spirit of the Beehive (El Espíritu de la colmena) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ]"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:43:22 GMT

The Spirit of the Beehive (El Espíritu de la colmena) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ]

by Víctor Erice

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Consumed "Scrap Book"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:34:42 GMT

Scrap Book

by Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Consumed "ReGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, 2005-2025"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:34:27 GMT

ReGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, 2005-2025

by William A. Ewing

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Consumed "Landmarks of Early Film, Vol. 1"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:30:04 GMT

Landmarks of Early Film, Vol. 1

by Thomas Edison

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Consumed "David Plowden: Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:55:12 GMT

David Plowden: Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography

by David Plowden

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Consumed "Green Mars (Mars Trilogy)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:53:42 GMT

Green Mars (Mars Trilogy)

by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Consumed "The Nature of Photographs"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:16:56 GMT

The Nature of Photographs

by Stephen Shore

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How "The Nature of Photographs" changed my life

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:13:23 GMT

The Nature of Photographs

by Stephen Shore

The title of this entry really should be “If Only I’d Known.” I’m not certain when the first edition of this book was published, but if it was before the winter of 1986, and I had read it along with Shore’s Uncommon Places and American Surfaces at the tender age of 17 while planning the next four years of my life, I think it would have changed the direction of the rest of my life.

Or maybe not. Maybe I would have been too young to appreciate it. But I hope not.

At any rate, I now know so much more about what photography means to me than I did before, and the kind of photography that speaks to me, and the photographs that I am looking to capture from the world around me.

Consumed "Winogrand 1964"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:59:04 GMT

Winogrand 1964

by Trudy Wilner Stack

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Consumed "William Christenberry"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:57:18 GMT

William Christenberry

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A story about "The Holiday"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Carrick) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:28:33 GMT

The Holiday

by Nancy Meyers

I have the solution to the problem of why this movie doesn’t work: take out Jack Black’s character completely and you have a better than average film. His part is totally superfluous and adds, roughly, 15 minutes to the total runtime. Cut him and you’re under 120 minutes and the film makes a little more sense.

However, there are more problems with the film, such as Kate Winslet. Now, I will sit through any movie no matter how bad just to watch Kate Winslet but in this movie she is required to be, well, funny on occassion, and she just isn’t funny. It’s almost as painful watching her try to be funny as it is watching Jack Black try not to be funny.

And how long can we sit through close up after close up of Jude Law and Cameron Diaz, no matter how beautiful their chiseled visages may be, before we start to get bored? By my reckoning they could have cut another 15 minutes of Jude/Cameron close ups and then we might have had a movie on our hands.

But in the final analysis it really seems like something went horribly wrong in the editing room, and that is a shame.