Showing posts with label Movies TV etc.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movies TV etc.. Show all posts

“Julia” — Serving Up Words Before Their Time

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May 4, 2022 Posted by Jay Livingston “The Marvelous Mrs. Anachronism” ( here ) is the post in this blog with by far  the most hits and comme...
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Did They Really Say That in 1882?

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February 12, 2022 Posted by Jay Livingston Language anachronisms in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Mad Men” often came through loud and cl...
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Consider the Social Class of the Lobster

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January 26, 2022 Posted by Jay Livingston “Food isn’t about nutrition,” wrote Robin Hanson some years ago ( here ). But it’s also not about ...

Being the Ricardos — Who’s Gaslighting Who?

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January 17, 2022 Posted by Jay Livingston The most frequently viewed post on this blog by far is the original one about language anachronism...

An American, Still Very American, in Paris

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January 8, 2022 Posted by Jay Livingston “Emily in Paris” is really about the clothes. I feel a bit irrelevant offering sociological comment...

White Lotus

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August 23, 2021 Posted by Jay Livingston Some random observations on White Lotus. I know it’s just television, and the stories are about the...

The Filmmaker — Bertrrand Tavernier (1941-2021)

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March 25, 2021 Posted by Jay Livingston “The Clockmaker” was Bertrand Tavernier’s first feature film. I saw it in 1978 when it came out, may...

Innocence Abroad — “Emily in Paris” II

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October 16, 2020 Posted by Jay Livingston Back in early days of television (the 1950s), novelist Herb Gold trying his hand at TV writing was...
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American Values Go to Paris

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O ctober 8, 2020 Posted by Jay Livingston “Emily in Paris,” the new show on Netflix, would seem to be a promo for Paris — the food, the c...

Hold the Moral Judgments About Transactional Sex — This Is a French Movie

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August 24, 2020 Posted by Jay Livingston “Une Fille Facile” (it can be translated as “An Easy Girl” or “A Simple Girl”) opened on Netflix ...
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What’s in a Movie Quote?

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June 24, 2020 Posted by Jay Livingston You shouldn’t use a quote out of context, especially when that context gives the quote a meaning very...

“Uncut Gems”

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February 1, 2020 Posted by Jay Livingston I saw “Uncut Gems” last week. It does not pass the Bechdel test. It does not have two women w...

Not Ken Jennings, But . . .

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January 13, 2020 Posted by Jay Livingston With Jeopardy running its Big Three Showdown (Jennings, Holzhauer, Rutter) last week, people we...

Mrs. Maisel Gets One Right

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December 26, 2019 Posted by Jay Livingston Since the new season of Mrs. Maisel dropped not long ago, my post from nearly two years ago ab...
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“Real” Disney Princesses

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December 17, 2019 Posted by Jay Livingston What do you if you’re a good feminist parent — you want kids to see genders as similar, not ex...

Coming In In the Middle

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October 2, 2019 Posted by Jay Livingston In the previous post , I said that up until the 1950s, it wasn’t uncommon that moviegoers would ...

This Is Where We Came In

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October 1, 2019 Posted by Jay Livingston Here’s a bit of cultural history — movie history — that you’re probably not aware of, even if yo...

Van Doren

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April 11, 2019 Posted by Jay Livingston In the fall of 1961, I took a semester of freshman lit. The instructor was a young man named John...
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Let’s Write a Zeitgeist Hit

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February 21, 2019 Posted by Jay Livingston It’s easy to look back and see how a movie, TV show, or book was a massive hit because it fit ...

“Cold War” — A Love Story

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January 15, 2019 Posted by Jay Livingston Like “Ida,” his 2013 film, Pawel Pawlikovsky’s new film “Cold War” is visually stunning. Like “...