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June 2012

June 07, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: Lola rennt and Dramatic Irony as Love's Performance

"This movie is conflicted. On the one hand, the movie tells us, "Don't think. Act."...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: Where are the Wild Things?

"Where the Wild Things Are is not a kids’ film. It’s an adult film about...

May 24, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: Adaptation (2002)

"For all of this witty meta-one-upsmanship, Adaptation does make two thought provoking points: adaptation involves...

May 17, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Being John Malkovich," Being Puppets Without Strings

"It's not a fun truth that we all want to be somebody else. In fact,...

May 10, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: A Critique of Criticism

"But more than the film’s source for comedy, irony is at the heart of everything...

April 2012

April 26, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: The First Rule of Fighting Yourself…

"If I buy what the film's selling, then the only consolation I have is that...

April 05, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Annie Hall," Romance, and Real Love

"I get the feeling that remembering what was supposedly great is far more fun that...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Badlands" (Malick, 1973)

"The movie about a young spree-killer and his 'along for the ride' girl gives us...

March 22, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Doubt" (Shanley, 2008)

"The film ultimately believes in doubt, thus robbing both belief and doubt of their potency."

March 15, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Roger & Me" (Moore, 1989)

"In a way, the film documents the toppling of an idol, an exposed god."

March 08, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Mother Night" (Vonnegut, 1961)

"The novel offers a parable on the cost of losing your ethical identity, or more...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: Interiors (Woody Allen, 1978)

"Is it better to have no spirituality than its pretentious simulacrum?"

February 02, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "The Age of Innocence" (Wharton, 1920)

The novel’s tone is thoroughly ironic, as Archer continually misreads as progressive the very traits...

January 2012

January 26, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Inglorious Basterds" (Tarantino, 2009)

The thing that I admire most about "Inglorious Basterds" is that it enforces moral responsibility.

January 19, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "The Crying of Lot 49" (Pynchon, 1966)

It’s a kind of mystery novel, so you are tempted to figure out the puzzle...

January 12, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "The Third Man" (Reed, 1949)

"...the world doesn’t suffer from a lack of villains. In fact, it has too many."

January 05, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

"I use this film to talk to my students about... the unknown knowns that orient...

December 2011

December 29, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: Beowulf

"The poem reminds us of a culture’s fragility, not only through its contents but by...

December 22, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: "Out of the Past"

In film noir, you never win: you just see how long you can stave off...

December 15, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: "Singin' in the Rain"

"Singin’ in the Rain" is glorious because it revels in its own artificiality.

December 08, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: "Citizen Kane"

Let’s work with the assumption that "Citizen Kane" says something essential about being an American.

December 01, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: "Gulliver's Travels"

Jonathan Swift's satire helps us see what's wrong not only with the world but with...

November 2011

November 24, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: "The Ambassadors"

Holbein's painting warns us against seeking complete knowledge as well as succumbing to fatal pessimism.

November 17, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: "Days of Heaven"

"When you watch this film, you keep falling back on particulars because its scope seems...

November 10, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: "Paradise Lost"

"It is the story of humanity: the fall. Its style is suitably grand, and its...

March 2011

March 30, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables . . . and Ponder the Global Consequences

Each week in Eat Your Vegetables, Carissa Smith shares the benefit and appeal of some more...

March 16, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: "Jane Eyre"

Each week in Eat Your Vegetables, Carissa Smith shares the benefit and appeal of some more...

March 09, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: Handel's "Messiah"

Each week in Eat Your Vegetables, Carissa Smith shares the benefit and appeal of some more...

March 02, 2011

Eat Your Vegetables: Trollope!

Each week in Eat Your Vegetables, Carissa Smith shares with us some of the more...

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