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DVD Menu Project, Films Watched January 5, 2011

DVD Menu Project, Films Watched January 4, 2011

Teenage Film Synopses #3

“So, like, this army guy is in his hotel room and he’s totally fucked up and punches the mirror, because he keeps  saying, “I miss the jungle… I miss the jungle… I gotta go in the jungle…” while this weird fucking music is playing. Because, I guess, he like lost his friend Charlie there, and […]

DVD Menu Project, Films Watched January 3, 2011

Sorry About That

DVD Menu Project, Films Watched January 2, 2011

A Useless Resolution: Photos of the menu pages of all the DVDs I watch this year.

Teenage Film Synopses #2

So, like, this rich guy really liked his sleigh, and he called it Rosebud, but then he died. And then the movie is about him as a kid who, like, gets adopted by another rich guy, and he grows up and starts a newspaper with his friends. But he’s like a really good guy at […]

Teenage Film Synopses #1

Inspired by a comment from Ms. Kathleen Hein. There was like this guy, right? And like his family? And they went to this hotel and it snowed a lot. And then a bunch of ghosts and team mascots were there and he went all crazy and shit and like, totally killed this bald black guy […]

Typewriter Porn

Jack Torrance’s Adler Universal, The Shining Barton Fink’s Underwood, Barton Fink All the President’s Men His Girl Friday Clark Nova, Naked Lunch

How Do You Like It?

I never knew about this until today. Stanley Kubrick and Shelley Duvall shot The Shining’s infamous typewriter scene in several different languages for the international versions. From Wikipedia: For each language, a suitable idiom was used: German (Was du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf morgen—”Never put off till tomorrow what may be done […]