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By Giacomo Selloni
The Act of Reading is Mark Blumberg's first documentary feature. One can categorize it as what's considered a "personal, or me documentary”, as it tells the story of his Ahab-like obsession of finally writing the book report on "Moby Dick" that, without doing so in eleventh grade, caused him to fail his English class. Damn that wickedly, wordy, white whale!
Show of hands from those of you reading this: how many of you can honestly say you made it through the entire novel? Anyone? Buhler? Yeah, neither have I. But we know the story, don't we? From the first line "Call me Ishmael" to the drowning death of Ahab, we all know a bit about the story. T'was obsession that did him in. A lesson, to be sure. Herman Melville's fanatical Ahab predates J.M. Barrie's Captain Hook...
By Giacomo Selloni
The Act of Reading is Mark Blumberg's first documentary feature. One can categorize it as what's considered a "personal, or me documentary”, as it tells the story of his Ahab-like obsession of finally writing the book report on "Moby Dick" that, without doing so in eleventh grade, caused him to fail his English class. Damn that wickedly, wordy, white whale!
Show of hands from those of you reading this: how many of you can honestly say you made it through the entire novel? Anyone? Buhler? Yeah, neither have I. But we know the story, don't we? From the first line "Call me Ishmael" to the drowning death of Ahab, we all know a bit about the story. T'was obsession that did him in. A lesson, to be sure. Herman Melville's fanatical Ahab predates J.M. Barrie's Captain Hook...
- 2/17/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Stars: Ruby Lee Dove II, Hal Schneider, Mary Anzalone, Devyn Placide, Mark Blumberg, Catherine Grady, David Dillard, Sam Stinson, Mykal Monroe, Bradley Creel, Ruby Epkins | Written and Directed by Jim Hickcox
Soft Matter certainly has originality on its side. A story that somehow manages to mix two trendy graffiti artists, two immortality-obsessed scientists and a sea god sounds like it’s worth a watch even just for the bizarreness.
In truth, it’s not actually as bizarre as it sounds. Immortality-obsessed scientists isn’t anything new in the world of sci-fi but the male and female duo do add plenty of humour. At first you may wonder how the two graffiti artists are going to link with the story but it soon becomes clear as they want to throw a last minute trendy art gallery/show to promote and make money from their art. They choose a run down, old...
Soft Matter certainly has originality on its side. A story that somehow manages to mix two trendy graffiti artists, two immortality-obsessed scientists and a sea god sounds like it’s worth a watch even just for the bizarreness.
In truth, it’s not actually as bizarre as it sounds. Immortality-obsessed scientists isn’t anything new in the world of sci-fi but the male and female duo do add plenty of humour. At first you may wonder how the two graffiti artists are going to link with the story but it soon becomes clear as they want to throw a last minute trendy art gallery/show to promote and make money from their art. They choose a run down, old...
- 5/15/2018
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
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