http://gatewaycinephiles.com/2010/04/17/a-world-stinking-on-the-bone-and-pecked-by-sparrows/ Appreciation and Criticism of Cinema Through Heartland Eyes Tue, 22 May 2012 05:44:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://gatewaycinephiles.com/2010/04/17/a-world-stinking-on-the-bone-and-pecked-by-sparrows/comment-page-1/#comment-39041 Gateway Cinephiles » Blog Archive » Film Diary: The Damned United Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:41:44 +0000 http://gatewaycinephiles.com/2010/04/17/a-world-stinking-on-the-bone-and-pecked-by-sparrows/#comment-39041 [...] This prickly tale of the rise and fall (and subsequent humbling) of notoriously sharp-tongued football manager Brian Clough provides an array of unexpected pleasures.  To be sure, the film boasts a worthy pedigree.  It was adapted by Frost/Nixon and The Queen writer Peter Morgan from a novel by David Peace, who also penned the Red Riding quartet, which was itself adapted into one of the finest British films of the past decade.  However, director Tom Hooper was not known to me, save by reputation as the helmsman of all seven episodes of HBO’s lauded John Adams.  Accordingly, it’s rewarding to witness Hooper’s adroit handling of The Damned United’s twin timelines (a structure that echoes, among other works, Sean Penn’s Into the Wild), as well as his determination to tweak sports movie conventions.  There are plenty of histrionic confrontations and tearful reunions, all of them entirely unsurprising, but for a film about football, it boasts remarkably little gameplay footage.  Hooper and Morgan keep the focus on Clough’s personality: his unflagging ambition, unfortunate taste for conflict, and self-destructive hubris.  It’s a daring thing to make a sports film about the limits of personal achievement, even if the subject is a manager rather than an athlete.  The Damned United’s full-throated commitment to its themes is impressive, and that commitment drips from every frame and performance.  Cinematographer Ben Smithard’s striking recreation of 1970s England is exquisite, from moldering Leeds to sun-kissed Brighton.  And while Michael Sheen doesn’t quite seem to inhabit the same world as his fellow performers, his portrayal of Clough—the startling blend of priggishness, throbbing ego, and lip-curling desperation—is mesmerizing stuff. Leave a Comment [...] [...] This prickly tale of the rise and fall (and subsequent humbling) of notoriously sharp-tongued football manager Brian Clough provides an array of unexpected pleasures.  To be sure, the film boasts a worthy pedigree.  It was adapted by Frost/Nixon and The Queen writer Peter Morgan from a novel by David Peace, who also penned the Red Riding quartet, which was itself adapted into one of the finest British films of the past decade.  However, director Tom Hooper was not known to me, save by reputation as the helmsman of all seven episodes of HBO’s lauded John Adams.  Accordingly, it’s rewarding to witness Hooper’s adroit handling of The Damned United’s twin timelines (a structure that echoes, among other works, Sean Penn’s Into the Wild), as well as his determination to tweak sports movie conventions.  There are plenty of histrionic confrontations and tearful reunions, all of them entirely unsurprising, but for a film about football, it boasts remarkably little gameplay footage.  Hooper and Morgan keep the focus on Clough’s personality: his unflagging ambition, unfortunate taste for conflict, and self-destructive hubris.  It’s a daring thing to make a sports film about the limits of personal achievement, even if the subject is a manager rather than an athlete.  The Damned United’s full-throated commitment to its themes is impressive, and that commitment drips from every frame and performance.  Cinematographer Ben Smithard’s striking recreation of 1970s England is exquisite, from moldering Leeds to sun-kissed Brighton.  And while Michael Sheen doesn’t quite seem to inhabit the same world as his fellow performers, his portrayal of Clough—the startling blend of priggishness, throbbing ego, and lip-curling desperation—is mesmerizing stuff. Leave a Comment [...]

]]> http://gatewaycinephiles.com/2010/04/17/a-world-stinking-on-the-bone-and-pecked-by-sparrows/comment-page-1/#comment-30715 Monday Morning Diary (April 19) « Wonders in the Dark Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:30:40 +0000 http://gatewaycinephiles.com/2010/04/17/a-world-stinking-on-the-bone-and-pecked-by-sparrows/#comment-30715 [...]  On the film scene I saw the following: Kick Ass  *** 1/2   (Friday afternoon)  Edgewater Multiplex The Secret in Their Eyes ***  (Friday evening)  Angelika Film Center Death at a Funeral **           (Saturday afternoon)  Edgewater multiplex La Mission  *** 1/2                 (Saturday evening)   The Big Clock  (Sunday afternoon)  classic ‘newspaper’ film series Film Forum Park Row        (Sunday afternoon) classic ‘newspaper’ film series Film Forum KICK ASS is a violent and vulgar ‘wannabe’ superhero movie, yet it’s entertainment quotient is high, and once the action kicks in it’s dynamic.  With these kind of ‘anything goes’ movies there are flaws of course, but heck who cares?  I was too busy rocking along, laughing and having a lot of fun, the that 11 year-old girl is a real hoot.  All three kids who attended – the three boys – loved it too. THE SECRET OF THEIR EYES, the Argentinian film that won the Best Foreign Language Film is a major disappointment, and in no way remotely deserved to win over the likes of Audiard’s masterwork, UN PROPHETE.  Still, there are some interesting visual ideas, the acting is strong, and the flashback structure intriguing.  But there are some clumsy segues too, and the narrative is rather long-winded and bloated.  It’s a challenging film, and it’s no affront to world cinema at all, but I did find it problematic. The big question is why did I bother to see DEATH AT A FUNERAL?  Well, Lucille wanted to go, as we had seen the British original and thought it an adequate comedy, and we both like Peter Dinklage, who we recently saw on stage.  But this African-American rehash is just that, and there’s not an iota of originality here.  There are some funny moments of course, and we laughed, but it’s all been seen before in a better film. As far as the independent drama LA MISSION goes, it’s safe to assert there are cliches, predictable turns (why does physical violence always find it’s way into such stories, when the actually instance is rather remote?)  but there is a compelling portrait of intolerance, and the macho mentality that serves as the underpinning for familial discord in a San Francisco Mexican community.  Conventional filmmaking for sure, but a poignant little film nonetheless. On Sunday morning I attended my first double-feature in the Film Forum’s popular ‘Newspaper Film’ series, and both Samuel Fuller’s Park Row and John Farrow’s The Big Clock, was wonderful to see on the big screen.  Fuller’s film about journalism and printing in the late 1800’s (a film dear to Fuller’s own heart) has some rather contrived ideas, but it’s still a riveting film, splendidly acted and impressively mounted.  The film is presently unavailable on DVD or VHS and is sometimes shown on TCM.  As far as John Farrow’s The Big Clock, this is an underatted noir about a murder and the following investigation that features Ray Milland, Charles Laughton and Elsa lancaster (in a cameo)  Laughton is terrific in both physical movement and the delivery of some great deadpan dialogue, and the set design with a ‘big clock’ and elevator shaft is excellent.  The DVD, of course, which I own, is part of the Universal Noir Collection, but there’s nothing to match the interactive Film Forum viewing, which negotiated the film’s ample humor.  I hope to make several other doubles, including one that features an early Wellman tomorrow night. 11 year-old Danny Juliano at Film Forum on Sunday afternoon Around the blogosphere there’s  plenty of great stuff: Dave’s towering noir countdown continues, and his Number 7 entry, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity, provides a banner essay: http://goodfellamovies.blogspot.com/2010/04/7-double-indemnity-billy-wilder-1944.html Judy at Movie Classics has been slowly building a catalogue of superlative reviews on William Wellman’s cinema, including a bevy of pre-coders, the latest of which may well be the best she’s ever penned, and that’s really saying something.  Her review on Wild Boys of the Road (1933) is masterful: http://movieclassics.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/wild-boys-of-the-road-1933/ Tony d’Ambra has another fabulous post up at FilmsNoir.net that deserves full attention.  Featuring an excerpt from an essay by the esteemed James Naremore (that I’ve read, that to Tony) on the unmade but planned Orson Welles film version of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness which was, according to the screenplay to be partially set around the Hudson River, which divides North Jersey from manhattan, a location I live only minutes from.                                                                                http://filmsnoir.net/directors/new-york-noir-the-heart-of-darkness.html John Greco’s diversity is always an amazement, and both his blogs show unrelenting insights and photographic awe.  He has a fabulous review up of the B classic Creature from the Black Lagoon at “Twenty Four Frames” that’s a must read: http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/creature-from-the-black-lagoon-1954-jack-arnold/ Jeffrey Goodman’s wildly popular ‘Annual Film Countdown’ has reached the final leg, as he’s nearing the year 2000.  And he’s working hard on his new film Peril as well, so action at The Last Lullaby is gleefully frantic: http://cahierspositif.blogspot.com/2010/04/1997-hana-bi-takeshi-kitano.html Troy Olson’s latest post, based on his incredibly prolific movie watching, takes in three films that requite that extra effort, and as usual he’s more than up to the task.  His trip to China, meanwhile gets closer by the day: http://troyolson.blogspot.com/2010/04/best-of-2000-undertow-piano-teacher-4.html Dee Dee has a festive month ahead in May at Darkness Into Light that includes Mother’s Day giveaways and a most intriguing Film Noir examination of her own: http://noirishcity.blogspot.com/2010/04/coming-in-month-of-may.html The second half of film scholar “Just Another Film Buff’s” consideration of Asian film artist Jia Zhang-Ke, is just as brilliant as the first, and he talks here about what may be the director’s greatest film, Still Life, as well as the beloved The World and several others.  It’s essential stuff!!!http://theseventhart.info/2010/04/17/the-films-of-jia-zhang-ke-part-22-2/ Michael, the revered ‘Coffee Messiah’ has a piece of music from Smokey and the Bandits that simply must be accessed!: http://coffeemessiah.blogspot.com/2010/04/speechless.html Always upping the ante on creativity, sensory beauty, and a challenging ’sprout’ question, Terrill, the “Creativepotager’ has some luscious chocolate strawberries and red tulips for you to indulge in: http://creativepotager.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/more-than-chocolate-covered-strawberries/ Film Writer Extraordinaire Jon Lanthier has a post at “Aspiring Sellout” that link sup with his superb Rumpus review of Joseph Campanella’s Oscar-winning Argentinian film The Secret in Their Eyes, that I read myself, and can only marvel at its insights and richness:                 http://aspiringsellout.com/ Shubhajit has an excellent piece up on Robert Altman’s Gosford Park up at “Cinemascope”:                                                                                                       http://cliched-monologues.blogspot.com/2010/04/gosford-park-2001.html Dan Getahun reports on ten films he’s like to see at the Minneapolis-St. paul Film Festival, which is ready to go: http://getafilm.blogspot.com/2010/04/ten-to-see-at-mspiff-2010.html Samuel Wilson continues to write reviews that rank among the best on line, so for those who haven’t yet discovered his magnificent work, head over to Mondo 70 for his exquisite review of one of my favorite films of the year, Vincere by Marco Bellochio:              http://mondo70.blogspot.com/2010/04/on-big-screen-vincere-2009.html Roderick Heath makes quite an impassioned case for Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark at Marilyn Ferdinand’s place, and right under it Marilyn writes up quite an essay on Van Peebles’s The Watermelon Man.  It’s essential stuff: http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=4166 David Scheicher has a most interesting post up at his place on ‘Spotlight on the Independent Arts.’ http://davethenovelist.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/spotlight-on-the-independent-arts-robbie-gil/ Kevin Olson has been on a brief sabatical as of late, but he too is preparing for the 2000’s poll, posting his own exhaustive consideration, but listing and talking here of his 50 top films of the decade.  His No. 1 is startling for me, as he also says it may be one of the “ten best American films ever made!”  Check it out:                                                                                            http://kolson-kevinsblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/top-50-films-of-decade-1-10.html  An absolutely spectacular review that ranks among the best I am promoting on this thread is Andrew Wyatt’s brilliant consideration of the Red Riding Trilogy at “Gateway Cinephiles.”  I read it, and will place my own comments later today.                                             http://gatewaycinephiles.com/2010/04/17/a-world-stinking-on-the-bone-and-pecked-by-sparrows/  Longman Oz continues to divide his tireless energy to theatre, film and music, and he has an amazing post leading now on his ‘100 Naughtie Albums of 2001′  It’s a true labor of love: http://noordinaryfool.com/2010/04/18/100noughtiealbums_2001/ Tony Dayoub eloquently speaks of the recent passing of Dede Allen, one of the most celebrated film editors at his place: http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2010/04/dede-allen.html J. D. has a fantastic (what else?) review up of Fantastic Mr. Fox at “Radiator Heaven.”                                                     http://rheaven.blogspot.com/2010/04/dvd-of-week-fantastic-mr-fox.html Matthew Lucas at From the Front Row talks about the five must-sees of the ‘River Run Film Festival’ and as always he writes beautifully an dinsightfully:                http://fromthefrontrow.blogspot.com/2010/04/5-must-sees-of-riverrun-film-festival.html   At Only the Cinema Ed Howard turns his exhaustive and thought-provoking attention to Don Siegel’s The Lineup. Great Stuff as always:              http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2010/04/lineup.html    Who is now writing faster than any blogger online?  Give up?  It’s Jack Cole, and he’s a man on a mission.  He’s talented for sure and his review on Kick Ass is exactly what it’s title implies: http://armchairc.blogspot.com/2010/04/kick-ass.html The ever-tasteful Donophon is planning a major project at his place on Melville, and it’s celebration time there: http://thelongvoyagehome.blogspot.com/2010/04/jean-pierre-melville-introduction.html And then there is silent and animation writer extraordinaire, T.S. of  “Screen Savour” whose latest Buster Keaton review on Steamboat Bill Jr., is a “must read” with a capital M:    http://www.screensavour.net/2010/04/steamboat-bill-jr-1928.html      Stephen’s exhaustive and rightly popular review of Terminator Salvation is still leading at “Checking On My Sausages”: http://checkingonmysausages.blogspot.com/2010/04/terminator-salvation.html Film Doctor has a terrific cumulative post up on Kick-Ass that examines the critical response across-the-board: http://filmdr.blogspot.com/2010/04/critical-debate-and-bratty-pleasures-of.html [...] [...]  On the film scene I saw the following: Kick Ass  *** 1/2   (Friday afternoon)  Edgewater Multiplex The Secret in Their Eyes ***  (Friday evening)  Angelika Film Center Death at a Funeral **           (Saturday afternoon)  Edgewater multiplex La Mission  *** 1/2                 (Saturday evening)   The Big Clock  (Sunday afternoon)  classic ‘newspaper’ film series Film Forum Park Row        (Sunday afternoon) classic ‘newspaper’ film series Film Forum KICK ASS is a violent and vulgar ‘wannabe’ superhero movie, yet it’s entertainment quotient is high, and once the action kicks in it’s dynamic.  With these kind of ‘anything goes’ movies there are flaws of course, but heck who cares?  I was too busy rocking along, laughing and having a lot of fun, the that 11 year-old girl is a real hoot.  All three kids who attended – the three boys – loved it too. THE SECRET OF THEIR EYES, the Argentinian film that won the Best Foreign Language Film is a major disappointment, and in no way remotely deserved to win over the likes of Audiard’s masterwork, UN PROPHETE.  Still, there are some interesting visual ideas, the acting is strong, and the flashback structure intriguing.  But there are some clumsy segues too, and the narrative is rather long-winded and bloated.  It’s a challenging film, and it’s no affront to world cinema at all, but I did find it problematic. The big question is why did I bother to see DEATH AT A FUNERAL?  Well, Lucille wanted to go, as we had seen the British original and thought it an adequate comedy, and we both like Peter Dinklage, who we recently saw on stage.  But this African-American rehash is just that, and there’s not an iota of originality here.  There are some funny moments of course, and we laughed, but it’s all been seen before in a better film. As far as the independent drama LA MISSION goes, it’s safe to assert there are cliches, predictable turns (why does physical violence always find it’s way into such stories, when the actually instance is rather remote?)  but there is a compelling portrait of intolerance, and the macho mentality that serves as the underpinning for familial discord in a San Francisco Mexican community.  Conventional filmmaking for sure, but a poignant little film nonetheless. On Sunday morning I attended my first double-feature in the Film Forum’s popular ‘Newspaper Film’ series, and both Samuel Fuller’s Park Row and John Farrow’s The Big Clock, was wonderful to see on the big screen.  Fuller’s film about journalism and printing in the late 1800’s (a film dear to Fuller’s own heart) has some rather contrived ideas, but it’s still a riveting film, splendidly acted and impressively mounted.  The film is presently unavailable on DVD or VHS and is sometimes shown on TCM.  As far as John Farrow’s The Big Clock, this is an underatted noir about a murder and the following investigation that features Ray Milland, Charles Laughton and Elsa lancaster (in a cameo)  Laughton is terrific in both physical movement and the delivery of some great deadpan dialogue, and the set design with a ‘big clock’ and elevator shaft is excellent.  The DVD, of course, which I own, is part of the Universal Noir Collection, but there’s nothing to match the interactive Film Forum viewing, which negotiated the film’s ample humor.  I hope to make several other doubles, including one that features an early Wellman tomorrow night. 11 year-old Danny Juliano at Film Forum on Sunday afternoon Around the blogosphere there’s  plenty of great stuff: Dave’s towering noir countdown continues, and his Number 7 entry, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity, provides a banner essay: http://goodfellamovies.blogspot.com/2010/04/7-double-indemnity-billy-wilder-1944.html Judy at Movie Classics has been slowly building a catalogue of superlative reviews on William Wellman’s cinema, including a bevy of pre-coders, the latest of which may well be the best she’s ever penned, and that’s really saying something.  Her review on Wild Boys of the Road (1933) is masterful: http://movieclassics.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/wild-boys-of-the-road-1933/ Tony d’Ambra has another fabulous post up at FilmsNoir.net that deserves full attention.  Featuring an excerpt from an essay by the esteemed James Naremore (that I’ve read, that to Tony) on the unmade but planned Orson Welles film version of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness which was, according to the screenplay to be partially set around the Hudson River, which divides North Jersey from manhattan, a location I live only minutes from.                                                                                http://filmsnoir.net/directors/new-york-noir-the-heart-of-darkness.html John Greco’s diversity is always an amazement, and both his blogs show unrelenting insights and photographic awe.  He has a fabulous review up of the B classic Creature from the Black Lagoon at “Twenty Four Frames” that’s a must read: http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/creature-from-the-black-lagoon-1954-jack-arnold/ Jeffrey Goodman’s wildly popular ‘Annual Film Countdown’ has reached the final leg, as he’s nearing the year 2000.  And he’s working hard on his new film Peril as well, so action at The Last Lullaby is gleefully frantic: http://cahierspositif.blogspot.com/2010/04/1997-hana-bi-takeshi-kitano.html Troy Olson’s latest post, based on his incredibly prolific movie watching, takes in three films that requite that extra effort, and as usual he’s more than up to the task.  His trip to China, meanwhile gets closer by the day: http://troyolson.blogspot.com/2010/04/best-of-2000-undertow-piano-teacher-4.html Dee Dee has a festive month ahead in May at Darkness Into Light that includes Mother’s Day giveaways and a most intriguing Film Noir examination of her own: http://noirishcity.blogspot.com/2010/04/coming-in-month-of-may.html The second half of film scholar “Just Another Film Buff’s” consideration of Asian film artist Jia Zhang-Ke, is just as brilliant as the first, and he talks here about what may be the director’s greatest film, Still Life, as well as the beloved The World and several others.  It’s essential stuff!!!http://theseventhart.info/2010/04/17/the-films-of-jia-zhang-ke-part-22-2/ Michael, the revered ‘Coffee Messiah’ has a piece of music from Smokey and the Bandits that simply must be accessed!: http://coffeemessiah.blogspot.com/2010/04/speechless.html Always upping the ante on creativity, sensory beauty, and a challenging ’sprout’ question, Terrill, the “Creativepotager’ has some luscious chocolate strawberries and red tulips for you to indulge in: http://creativepotager.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/more-than-chocolate-covered-strawberries/ Film Writer Extraordinaire Jon Lanthier has a post at “Aspiring Sellout” that link sup with his superb Rumpus review of Joseph Campanella’s Oscar-winning Argentinian film The Secret in Their Eyes, that I read myself, and can only marvel at its insights and richness:                 http://aspiringsellout.com/ Shubhajit has an excellent piece up on Robert Altman’s Gosford Park up at “Cinemascope”:                                                                                                       http://cliched-monologues.blogspot.com/2010/04/gosford-park-2001.html Dan Getahun reports on ten films he’s like to see at the Minneapolis-St. paul Film Festival, which is ready to go: http://getafilm.blogspot.com/2010/04/ten-to-see-at-mspiff-2010.html Samuel Wilson continues to write reviews that rank among the best on line, so for those who haven’t yet discovered his magnificent work, head over to Mondo 70 for his exquisite review of one of my favorite films of the year, Vincere by Marco Bellochio:              http://mondo70.blogspot.com/2010/04/on-big-screen-vincere-2009.html Roderick Heath makes quite an impassioned case for Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark at Marilyn Ferdinand’s place, and right under it Marilyn writes up quite an essay on Van Peebles’s The Watermelon Man.  It’s essential stuff: http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/?p=4166 David Scheicher has a most interesting post up at his place on ‘Spotlight on the Independent Arts.’ http://davethenovelist.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/spotlight-on-the-independent-arts-robbie-gil/ Kevin Olson has been on a brief sabatical as of late, but he too is preparing for the 2000’s poll, posting his own exhaustive consideration, but listing and talking here of his 50 top films of the decade.  His No. 1 is startling for me, as he also says it may be one of the “ten best American films ever made!”  Check it out:                                                                                            http://kolson-kevinsblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/top-50-films-of-decade-1-10.html  An absolutely spectacular review that ranks among the best I am promoting on this thread is Andrew Wyatt’s brilliant consideration of the Red Riding Trilogy at “Gateway Cinephiles.”  I read it, and will place my own comments later today.                                             http://gatewaycinephiles.com/2010/04/17/a-world-stinking-on-the-bone-and-pecked-by-sparrows/  Longman Oz continues to divide his tireless energy to theatre, film and music, and he has an amazing post leading now on his ‘100 Naughtie Albums of 2001′  It’s a true labor of love: http://noordinaryfool.com/2010/04/18/100noughtiealbums_2001/ Tony Dayoub eloquently speaks of the recent passing of Dede Allen, one of the most celebrated film editors at his place: http://www.cinemaviewfinder.com/2010/04/dede-allen.html J. D. has a fantastic (what else?) review up of Fantastic Mr. Fox at “Radiator Heaven.”                                                     http://rheaven.blogspot.com/2010/04/dvd-of-week-fantastic-mr-fox.html Matthew Lucas at From the Front Row talks about the five must-sees of the ‘River Run Film Festival’ and as always he writes beautifully an dinsightfully:                http://fromthefrontrow.blogspot.com/2010/04/5-must-sees-of-riverrun-film-festival.html   At Only the Cinema Ed Howard turns his exhaustive and thought-provoking attention to Don Siegel’s The Lineup. Great Stuff as always:              http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2010/04/lineup.html    Who is now writing faster than any blogger online?  Give up?  It’s Jack Cole, and he’s a man on a mission.  He’s talented for sure and his review on Kick Ass is exactly what it’s title implies: http://armchairc.blogspot.com/2010/04/kick-ass.html The ever-tasteful Donophon is planning a major project at his place on Melville, and it’s celebration time there: http://thelongvoyagehome.blogspot.com/2010/04/jean-pierre-melville-introduction.html And then there is silent and animation writer extraordinaire, T.S. of  “Screen Savour” whose latest Buster Keaton review on Steamboat Bill Jr., is a “must read” with a capital M:    http://www.screensavour.net/2010/04/steamboat-bill-jr-1928.html      Stephen’s exhaustive and rightly popular review of Terminator Salvation is still leading at “Checking On My Sausages”: http://checkingonmysausages.blogspot.com/2010/04/terminator-salvation.html Film Doctor has a terrific cumulative post up on Kick-Ass that examines the critical response across-the-board: http://filmdr.blogspot.com/2010/04/critical-debate-and-bratty-pleasures-of.html [...]

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