Philip Martin
Recent Stories by Philip Martin
A hedge against the recession of sentience
posted: 05/19/2013 2:58 a.m. Discuss
A friend of mine recently returned from California with a curious story of a woman who professed “to not like art.” Which if true would be akin to not liking oxygen or water—a miserable state in which you’re bound to constantly consume that which you despise.
REVIEW: No
posted: 05/17/2013 3:22 a.m. Discuss
Something about Pablo Larrain’s seriously intentioned, based on-fact No (which was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Oscar, losing to Amour) put me in mind of a story I heard a couple of years ago about a guy who went to a Halloween party as “Don Draper, circa 1976.”
CRITICAL MASS: Hollywood serves junk, glazed-eyed public eats
posted: 05/12/2013 3:02 a.m. Discuss
How early did summer arrive this year? It snowed in Fayetteville on the morning of the day blockbuster movie season arrived.
Telling the truth about the South
posted: 05/12/2013 2:35 a.m. Discuss
Revisit with caution the places that awed you in your youth. Too often the rooms are smaller than you remembered, the vistas less grand.
ON FILM: Even 3-D Gatsby won’t touch book
posted: 05/10/2013 3:14 a.m. Discuss
As of this writing, I haven’t seen Baz Luhrmann’s highly stylized version of The Great Gatsby, and I don’t know that I will see it in all its 3-D grandeur before it ends its theatrical run. I might wait for the DVD.
REVIEW: The Angels’ Share
posted: 05/10/2013 3:09 a.m. Discuss
If you know nothing else about 76-year-old British director Ken Loach know this: He is an unreconstructed lefty.
SPIRITS: Prettied-up spirits lure buzz seekers
posted: 05/05/2013 3:20 a.m. Discuss
I imagine there is at least some overlap between readers of this column and watchers of the AMC series Mad Men.
The rescuers and the rescued
posted: 05/05/2013 2:43 a.m. Discuss
A few months ago, a reader sent me a gift: three small metal tags with the word “Rescued” inscribed upon them.
REVIEW: Room 237
posted: 05/03/2013 3:10 a.m. Discuss
There are a lot of entertaining and intriguing theories buffeted about in Rodney Ascher’s Room 237, a documentary about the putative “hidden meanings” of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror movie of Stephen King’s novel The Shining.
ON FILM: Southern cinema builds New Wave
posted: 05/03/2013 3:06 a.m. Discuss
In case you haven’t noticed, it’s been a pretty good couple of weeks for performing artists with Arkansas connections.
