Waggish

Waggish watches five films: For me, they all point out the fallacy that formalism must restrict itself to addressing the limits and variations of its own form.

GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 3/30. 2007

Is there a link to go with this mad Waggish fellow?

SF Tidbits for 11/27/07 2007

Waggish is right that much of what allows Stoner to work so well is its "unremitting gravity", but there are novels about similar characters, settings, and situations where the unremitting gravity succeeds at nothing other than squashing the petty into the trivial.

Stoner 2008

Waggish on God Walks Backwards: "It is the most effective presentation of Debordian spectacle in film that I have ever seen, and more remarkable given that [Miklós] Jancsó abandoned his more classicist leanings to adopt an uglier, harsher contemporary style, all electricity and hum."

GreenCine Daily: Shorts and fests, 11/13. 2006

Waggish on Winter Wind: "The brilliance of it lies in how [Miklós] Jancsó communicates the abstract conflict between the idealists and the realpolitik sorts with pretty much no explicit political speech."

GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts. 2006

Waggish is right that much of what allows Stoner to work so well is its "unremitting gravity", but there are novels about similar characters, settings, and situations where the unremitting gravity succeeds at nothing other than squashing the petty into the trivial.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

Meanwhile, blogger Waggish uses "The Cold Equations" to distinguish between two different kinds of sf: "Exemplary" vs. "Exceptional".

The Cold Equations 2005

Meanwhile, blogger Waggish uses "The Cold Equations" to distinguish between two different kinds of sf: "Exemplary" vs. "Exceptional".

June 2005 2005

Another review of “Mother and the Whore” from Waggish.

Vitro Nasu » 2005 » May 2005

Apologies for the plug, but I just reviewed Savage Detectives over at Waggish and would welcome any comment.

Bolaño, Mi Amor 2007