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Urban Tree: Art and Reality in The Wire
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Review, Commentary, etc. Friday, 20 March 2009. Art and Reality in The Wire. I was a latecomer to The Wire. I’d been hearing for years about how it was ‘the most amazing show ever’, but people were saying the same about Battlestar Galactica. And, I mean, come on. It’s about robots or something. But when my wife and I finally started watching, we quickly became hooked. Now, obviously the world doesn’t need yet another person saying that The Wire. May be the most the most intricately designed series in TV ...
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Urban Tree: January 2008
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Review, Commentary, etc. Thursday, 31 January 2008. Were not beginning to. to. mean something? You and I, mean something! Ah thats a good one! While in negotiations to take the part of Pozzo in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. For the play includes a section devoted to different interpretations, including everything from political allegories to homosexual subtexts. Posted by Stephen Crowe. Wednesday, 9 January 2008. A Holiday from Ourselves: literature and emotional well-being. Doesn’t exactly focus on...
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Urban Tree: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups: Nabokov’s Ada or Ardor
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Review, Commentary, etc. Friday, 15 May 2009. A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups: Nabokov’s Ada or Ardor. The panting and happy reader, and there they spontaneously embrace and are linked forever if the book lasts forever.’. He has already informed us that craft is the only commodity of value. In interviews and essays, he was endlessly listing authors and works in order of their greatness, and he cannot be excluded from a game that follows his own rules. Posted by Stephen Crowe. College Writing for Dummies.
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Urban Tree: The Life of Fiction: James Wood’s How Fiction Works
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Review, Commentary, etc. Sunday, 28 December 2008. The Life of Fiction: James Wood’s How Fiction Works. Wood, who was recently took a new job as book critic for the New Yorker. Is regularly referred to as ‘the greatest critic of his generation’, or in similar terms, by the likes of Cynthia Ozick and Norman Rush. Given such success, a book like How Fiction Works. For many, however, this unwavering critical stance makes Wood a controversial figure. Wyatt Mason of Harper’s Magazine. Has accused Wood of cond...
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Urban Tree: Sins of the Father: P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood
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Review, Commentary, etc. Saturday, 2 February 2008. Sins of the Father: P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Paul Thomas Anderson has an abiding interest in guilt. All of his films revolve in one way or another around its characters’ struggle with their consciences, but in his latest film he has surely expanded this theme into its ultimate iteration: There Will Be Blood. Wallows in guilt; bathes in it; dives, sinks and ultimately drowns in it. While There Will Be Blood. Perhaps lacks the range. That of a...
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Urban Tree: American Myth: The Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men [pt. 1]
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Review, Commentary, etc. Sunday, 9 December 2007. American Myth: The Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men [pt. 1]. No Country For Old Men. Is the Coen brothers’ first film in three years, but it is their first in six years to display the quality that distinguishes their best work. Following the excellent Man Who Wasn’t There. The pair seemed to lose their way with a pair of comedies, Intolerable Cruelty. The detective figure does not appear until quite some time into the film; in this case, even after h...
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Urban Tree: December 2008
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Review, Commentary, etc. Sunday, 28 December 2008. The Life of Fiction: James Wood’s How Fiction Works. Wood, who was recently took a new job as book critic for the New Yorker. Is regularly referred to as ‘the greatest critic of his generation’, or in similar terms, by the likes of Cynthia Ozick and Norman Rush. Given such success, a book like How Fiction Works. Posted by Stephen Crowe. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Collects the miscellaneous writings of Stephen Crowe, amateur thinker. There Will Be Blood.
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Urban Tree: December 2009
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Review, Commentary, etc. Thursday, 10 December 2009. Theatre of the Absurd. Can theatre do anything about climate change? There is something so utterly perfect about this question, so completely of its time. That the article from which it comes, written by Steve Waters in the Guardian theatre blog. Should be preserved in a time capsule, so that it may be studied by historians of the future. Already reached millions of viewers, grossing nearly $50 million; but if only I. Posted by Stephen Crowe. Collects ...
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Urban Tree: Scenes from the End of Suburbia
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Review, Commentary, etc. Saturday, 7 March 2009. Scenes from the End of Suburbia. 8217; Below, four black boxes enclose the words ‘PHOTO COMING SOON’. In the time that I was visiting the site, I was surprised to see first one, then another, and then a third car turn into the empty cul-de-sac and stop. But each time, the drivers merely reversed into the nearest of the dead-end streets and headed straight back out again, turning back the way they had come to correct their wrong turn. Posted by Stephen Crowe.
