New on idrinkyourmilkshake.com: Who else could have played Daniel Plainview? Kinski? H.W.? H.M. Tilford? J. J. Carter? Where do all those initals come from? Graphological analysis of Daniel Plainview’s handwriting What’s with the hammers during the blowout? How evil is Plainview? Did you see his tear?
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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
All posts tagged there-will-be-blood
Plainview, Wrath of God
Posted by Jürgen on April 24, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/04/24/plainview-wrath-of-god/
Konsum: One More Saturday Night
Fewer movies than usual because I’m working on several top secret plans for world domination, we’re still catching up with The Wire, and my obsession with Daniel Plainview shows no signs of abating. (Check out the new entries in the contest.) The notable exception was Etgar Keret’s Jellyfish, a sweet film that plays like minor-key [...]
Posted by Jürgen on April 7, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/04/07/konsum-one-more-saturday-night/
Easter Leftovers
I’ll have photos from holiday sojourn on Cape Cod later, but in the meantime I wanted to point to Commander König’s eerie and beautiful Easter-inspired photo series. I just happened to mention Phish’s 1998 Prague shows the other day — turns out, the second night is being officially released on LivePhish today. You can listen [...]
Posted by Jürgen on March 25, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/03/25/easter-leftovers/
Milkshake Contest
I’m running a little contest over on idrinkyourmilkshake.com: for a chance to win one of five There Will Be Blood DVDs, grab your camera phone or webcam and upload a video of yourself saying the line that gave the site its name. The video above is the entry by IDYM regular EatHimByHisOwnLight. As a matter [...]
Posted by Jürgen on March 20, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/03/20/milkshake-contest/
Paul Thomas Anderson
“You’ve got a serious artist crush,” Marcy remarked — a statement, not a question — when I sent her a link to a gallery of adorably geeky photographs of Paul Thomas Anderson during the Hard Eight period. Guilty as charged: I’ve been rewatching and reassessing and obsessing over all five of PTA’s films, reevaluating Punch-Drunk [...]
Posted by Jürgen on March 7, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/03/07/paul-thomas-anderson/
I Milk Your Drinkshake!
Via idrinkyourmilkshake.com, where Blood obsession is still in full swing. Some recent favorites: Incredible revelations: the Peachtree Dance and Henry’s diary are both derived from East of Eden. Eli doesn’t get to bless the well, but he blesses Daniel’s house. More on the Greystone Mansion. Napkinface: “There is no sex.” More. Drinking, eating, smoking in [...]
Posted by Jürgen on March 5, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/03/05/i-milk-your-drinkshake/
Giant
The promising first half of George Stevens’ Texan epic sets up a tiresome three-and-a-half-hour descent into mediocrity. Displaced northern bride Liz Taylor slowly fades from the center of the story, nouveau riche James Dean is woefully misused, children come and go, and Rock Hudson’s stubborn cattle rancher is granted an improbable redemption. Giant keeps pulling [...]
Posted by Jürgen on January 26, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/01/26/giant/
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