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2025 / #05: Film Changes
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January 2025 Round-Up
In January, I read 3 prose books, 1 play, 5 comics, watched 13 movies (including 2 short films), and 2 seasons of television. The dearth of movies and tv are explicable – I have to be out of the house a lot these days, and I refuse to watch anything more involved than a YouTube video essay on my laptop or (god forbid) my phone. I would like to be reading more novels, though, and more difficult ones, if possible.
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2025 / #02: Lynchian
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Reading & Film Round-Up July-November
I’m doing this, as mentioned in the previous post, to wipe the slate clean for next year, and to have an accurate count of how much I read and watched this year.
To that end, some of these capsule reviews will be just a sentence or two, and some will be longer. On occasion, when I had written a longer note on something that I didn’t end up posting, I’ve flagged that.
Nevertheless, this is very long. I wouldn’t blame you for just skipping it. This one’s more for me than for you. Therefore, I won’t be sending this as a newsletter either, but I’ll link to it in the next one.
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Fiction and Non-Fiction in Film
In an interview with Anurag Minus Verma (whose podcast is easily the best Indian podcast around, though unfortunately for my non-Indian readers, most of his episodes are not in English), director Shaunak Sen, who made the documentary All That Breathes, talks about fiction and non-fiction in film, and the separation between the two. He makes the point that if Tarkovsky, for example, has a contemplative shot of a tree swaying in the wind, is that not a non-fiction shot?
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 28: Woo-Woo
This one’s coming to you closer to the weekend, if not quite within it. I count that a victory.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 27: Second Half of the Year
This is coming later than I’d like, but I was pretty slammed with work Monday and Tuesday. Usually, Monday is my busy day. I strictly avoid working on the weekend, and avoid looking at work emails too, so Monday is when I respond to everyone’s weekend emails. Plus Monday is file delivery day for most comics publishers, which means last-minute revisions and pre-flight checks.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 26 Part 2: Watching and Reading
This is a couple of days later than I’d like, but I was under the weather again this week.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 24: The Mystery Gods
After the eventful weather of last week, it’s been pleasant to have a week with not much incident. I had to stay home last weekend because of the weather, so I wrapped up my work for the week on Wednesday to spend time with K.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 23: Strive to Fail
It’s been an interesting week here in India. For one, Pune has been bombarded by torrential rains all of last week, which is usual after a cyclone hits the east coast of India, as Remal did at the end of May.
Things came to a head on Saturday, when Pune had the worst rainfall it’s seen in June since 1991. Several parts of Pune were flooded, a friend was stuck in traffic for four hours getting home, my parents’ house flooded (only a bit, thankfully), and a video went viral of a man floating down a busy road on a foam mattress.
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