Archive for June 12th, 2009

Symposium: The Function of Film

Josh’s complaint that Up merely made him feel good instead of forever altering his weltanschauung prompted me to consider a deeper question: What is the relationship between a film’s quality and the feeling it evokes in its audience?
This is a broad, intimidating, and largely unanswerable question—at least not within the space of this blog. I [...]

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Replaced?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
How exactly is this going to work? For those of you who haven’t heard, Lauren Conrad is leaving The Hills, a show in which she is basically the main character. In her place, MTV has gotten Conrad’s former Laguna Beach rival Kristin Cavallari to replace her.

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