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2024-04-01T13:56:59-04:00

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Picturing Bare Life

Last updated on: April 1, 2024 at 1:56 pm By Chase Padusniak

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I’m a word person. This is, I think, a sound investment. The word is the structure of our most common communication, whether spoken or written; it is the form which most often gives shape to our needs, desires, and losses. No greater technology (save perhaps penicillin—itself dependent on words as much as on chemical experimentation) has yet existed. Even the artificial intelligences that haunt us often speak in words. Their ersatz thinking is a language denuded of ambiguity, language reduced... Read more

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2024-03-25T13:18:49-04:00

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Barbed and Dangerous

Last updated on: March 25, 2024 at 1:18 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Barb Wire (1996) is the kind of movie they don’t make anymore. That is a value neutral statement. Despite pondering the question for a whole day, I’ve not yet been able to disentangle the film’s frantic, leathery energy from the schizoid cultural paradigm it represents. In this case, I wish a cigar were merely a cigar and that Pamela Anderson Lee (Barb Wire herself) were merely Pamela Anderson Lee. But Pam is her breasts and leather onesies. And Barb Wire... Read more

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2024-03-19T10:03:35-04:00

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A Stately-Pleasure Dome Kubla Khan Did Decree? In LA?

Last updated on: March 19, 2024 at 10:03 am By Chase Padusniak

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When Kubla Khan did his stately pleasure-dome decree, I imagine his court was excited. Dancing? Zithers? Wine? What’s not to like? I have trouble seeing Kubla or one of his Sinicized Mongol courtiers looking dour: “no. I already watched the dancing girls today! I want new dancing girls! And wine from Shanxi, not Hebei! And the goose stinks! Have the chef executed!” Maybe it happened that way, I don’t know. But life in the saddle ain’t easy. Seeing half your... Read more

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2024-03-12T16:24:19-04:00

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Shimmering Opacity in a Country Church

Last updated on: March 12, 2024 at 4:24 pm By Chase Padusniak

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This one is likely to be short. I’ve just handed in my dissertation, and I think my brain will blow out like a whoopie cushion exposed to a pin prick if I try to go on for any length of time. I’m running on the neural equivalent of fumes. The term “late medieval mysticism” is banging around in my head, and there’s nothing I can do to silence the farting echo. The only thought that brings me peace is Ingmar... Read more

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2024-03-04T09:21:00-04:00

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In Defense of Ishtar

Last updated on: March 4, 2024 at 9:21 am By Chase Padusniak

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I like Showgirls (1995) and Cocktail (1988). I’ve got a thing for the underdog, the Razzie winner. No doubt because I consider myself the underdog (what kind of self-respecting neurotic doesn’t?). Elaine May’s Ishtar (1987) is anything but a shrimpy lightweight duking it out with Brutus Beefcake. May, now 91, stands head and shoulders above the competition, a comedic doyenne for half a century. The film stars Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman. Even Isabelle Adjani crops up in a side... Read more

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2024-02-26T18:26:32-04:00

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A Healthy, Normal American Boy

Last updated on: February 26, 2024 at 6:26 pm By Chase Padusniak

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In middle school, I played Albert in Bye Bye Birdie (1960), a musical loosely based on Elvis Pressley’s 1957 drafting into the US Army. When you participate in a show at such a formative age, the lyrics stick with you. I can’t sing well and yet the director thought it a good idea to cast me as a character with a handful of songs. These live within me, periodically emerging to remind me of the acting career that could have... Read more

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2024-02-19T14:58:56-04:00

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It’s…It’s Afraid!

Last updated on: February 19, 2024 at 2:58 pm By Chase Padusniak

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As a kid, I spent countless hours drawing up maps of imaginary civil wars, feuding statelets marked by jagged lines on printer paper. I’d have these make-believe polities fight, draw arrows to signal invasions, and mentally play out cartoon versions of on-the-ground violence. When I wasn’t doing that, I’d spread playing cards across bedroom and hallway floors, shaping units and formations out of twos and tens, sorting armies by suit and value (I learned to play poker when I was... Read more

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2024-02-13T15:28:01-04:00

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British Lobster in the Spanish Sun

Last updated on: February 13, 2024 at 3:28 pm By Chase Padusniak

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I’ve lounged the beaches from San Juan to Cinque Terre, but I prefer a brisk. day and a thick jacket. No sunblock for me. Outside my window at this moment, snow is stacked a half-foot high. Soon my dogs will beg to go out (bellies full of snow as they are. At least they had fun). My Slavic skin isn’t made for intense heat and direct exposure; my complexion (and my mood) fare better with early nights, deep darkness, and... Read more

2024-02-07T11:39:57-04:00

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The Devil and Andy Sachs

Last updated on: February 7, 2024 at 11:39 am By Chase Padusniak

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I have become a man, undertaken a solemn duty impressed only upon film critics, fathers, and husbands. These reviews are read by fewer people than live in the Falklands. I have no children. My wife brought me before the audiovisual altar to drink deep from the cup of her childhood. I watched The Devil Wears Prada (2006). David Frankel (directing) and Alina Brosh McKenna’s Anne Hatheway and Meryl Streep-driven adaptation of a novel about publishing, fashion, and the gosh-darned American... Read more

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2025-07-16T06:03:11-04:00

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Almost Nauseous

Last updated on: July 16, 2025 at 6:03 am By Chase Padusniak

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Toward the end of writer-director Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous (2000) the teenage Rolling Stone reporter and the band he’s been following for most of the movie suddenly hit an electrical storm while flying around on tour. The mood, tinged by regret and failure before they leave, swings back to joviality only for the storm to coax confessions out of the imploding band. They hate each other. Each lets the others know they’ve slept with their wives and girlfriends. William Miller... Read more

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