Veronica, you know my affection for this film, so it was a real joy to read your take. Particularly I'm interested in your evocation of speed and slowness. The film seems to take specific interest in juxtaposing new (fast) and old (slow) technologies ...
Great post Kal, thanks for getting things started this week. I think the clip is a valuable illustration, but I am most interested in this idea of a "felt-sense" versus the enunciation of love. I admit, I have not read the Nancy text you refer t ...
Kal, I think you rightly point to what I'm trying to get at here, but I would caution about too quickly turning my reading of this film into a more generalized take on love. While I do think the turn toward a "generalized competition" holds ...
Veronica, it's a great question and one I don't have a fully realized response for, so I'll have to think more about it. I do think it is significant because in the other films I mentioned--AFTERNOON DELIGHT and HELLO I MUST BE GOING--the l ...
Daniel, thanks for your thoughts on this really interesting moment. I'm struck by how your thoughts relate to both Kevin's and Linda's, first the literalization of the word play of Pee-Wee's joke, and second the relationship to Pee-Wee ...
Hi Linda, Thanks for starting off this week's theme with a topic I am also interested in: play. I'm curious if you think play as a act of queering is partly why Pee-Wee's world is so polarizing? I've always felt Pee-Wee was a figure th ...
Hi Kevin, Thank you for providing a great opportunity to think about Pee-Wee in a sphere I've always been fascinated with: the domestic. In both the TV series and Burton's film, I've always been curious about Pee-Wee's elaborate and fa ...
Craig, thanks for your thoughtful response. I hadn't considered the dubbing or the drive-in premiere in that context, but I couldn't agree more after considering it. The commercial film "Pee-Wee" we see at the end also seems to me to p ...
Hi Seb, Thanks for such an insightful post. Watching this video I was struck by the absurdity of Bauer's presentation that seemed to be equal parts confidence and desperation. Bauer seems both fully in control of every (possible) situation, and yet a ...
Fascinating take Roland, thanks for your contribution. I'm curious what you might add as it regards "art" in this context. Burtynsky’s photographs are quite interesting and I'm wondering if this call for "aesthetic representation& ...
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