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jessica

We'll take you boating!

About Me

Passionate about cinema. My favorite person is my niece. Her name is Madeleine, just like (one of) Kim Novak's name(s) in Vertigo. Oh, and I really dig avians. I also seriously dig Ferrara's Ms. 45, along with comparable films where female leads break down the power structure or usurp their control through a similar "pleating" (see Brenez...)trajectory.

My Interests

FILM, semiotics, literature, music, dancing, candy and little birds!

I'd like to meet:

pretty parakeets, preferably; or any non-avian who can truly adore me.

Music:

pavement, stereolab, new order, broadcast, the double, Yes, The Beatles, caribou/manitoba, Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead, Velvet Underground, Small Faces, aislers set, swirlies, the walkmen, M83, calla, Sheena Easton, The Jets, Irene Cara

Movies:

Celine et Julie vont en bateau, le mepris, The Birds, Vivre Sa Vie, Lola Montes, Marnie, Vertigo, Nuit et Brouillard, Ms. 45, Miami Vice, King of New York, le joli mai, histoire(s) du cinema, 3 Women, Rosemary's Baby, Regarde la mer, L'Intrus, Mystery Street, Last Days, AI, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Desperately Seeking Susan, 42nd St., Poor Cow, The Crowd, Clockers, Viaggio in Italia, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Age of Innocence, Millennium Mambo, Cafe Lumiere, Being John Malkovich, The Edge of the World, Videodrome, Trouble Every Day, The Agronomist, 2046, One Plus One/Sympathy for the Devil, M. Klein, 400 Blows, Hiroshima,Mon Amour, La Vie est un Roman, The Man with the Golden Arm, Barry Lyndon, The Wrong Man, Shampoo, Mean Streets, I am Cuba, Gold Diggers of 1933, Gigi, Mouchette, Black Narcissus

Television:

of all time--Bionic Woman, Rhoda, Dallas, Survivor, Seinfeld, Curb your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development and Lost

Books:

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stop-Time, Junky, Look Homeward, Angel, The Invention of Solitude, Jazz, Simulacra and Simulation, The Adventures of Augie March(ESPEC. the part about Mimi...and what happens to her over XMas), Invisible Man, The Unconsoled, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Cinema 2: The time-image

Heroes:

laura mulvey, christian metz, jean baudrillard, raymond bellour, gilles deleuze, michel chion and jacques rivette. Most recently--Cyril Neyrat and Nicole Brenez. Most profoundly--all the amazing women in my family...especially my mother and my grandmothers.

My Blog

ossos (bones) --my mini critique

ossos paints a picture of lived experience.  The locus of this experience is quite specific -- we as spectators feel the smallness of the impoverished Creole neighborhood in Portugal that seems to be ...
Posted by jessica on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:38:00 PST

1 or 2 things i think about musicals

Inspired by the sad lack of youth interest in Film Forum's current b musical series, I've thought it worthwhile to share some thoughts. (which a few of you have recently heard me complain about.) My c...
Posted by jessica on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:59:00 PST

children of (wo)men

thoughts on cuaron's film...so i'll qualify by this by saying that my arrogance deems blogs as rather lame.  I still feel compelled to write, yet I must acknowledge awareness of my own blogging's pote...
Posted by jessica on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:43:00 PST