Reading is a solitary pleasure, but what exactly does it do to you as a human being? Make you better, worse, same? Salon has an article up about the topic and I’ll just quote the subtitle, which I think should be enough for you to want to read it (did the trick with me):
A critic says Jane Austen taught him to be a more decent man, but the world is full of well-read jerks.
I haven’t read much Jane Austen, so I may be a jerk because or despite of it.
I’ve written about The Tree of Life just days ago, but that won’t stop me from linking to this review by Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir:
Right now I suspect that “The Tree of Life” is pretty much nuts overall, a manic hybrid folly with flashes of brilliance. But even if that’s true it’s a noble crazy, a miraculous William Butler Yeats kind of crazy, alive with passion for art and the world, for all that is lost and not lost and still to come.
The review is comprehensive (and favourable), but above sentence on its own would have been enough to make me want to see the film.
I’ve been watching that trailer again and again during the last few months since it appeared online, and frankly, if the film is only half as good as that trailer, it’ll be fantastic:
Salon has a short piece up on the director Terrence Malick:
Terrence Malick has been the best-kept secret in American cinema for almost 40 years. The director of “Badlands,” “Days of Heaven,” “The Thin Red Line” and “The New World” is familiar to film buffs but mostly unknown to the general public, which knows him, if at all, as the man who took a 20-year hiatus between pictures and doesn’t do interviews for any reason, ever.
The article also includes a video on Malick’s film “Days of Heaven”.
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