User:Pumpkin4brekfast

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I was born in 1984, the year of Orwell's eponymous book, a book which I think is vastly overrated.

I like films, and watching films, and reading about 'em. I am responsible for the creation of the articles on Pauline Kael's books. It is my intention to gradually fill-in-the-banks completely, so to speak. After that, onwards to more critic personas in film! (especially film books) :-p

My favorite film critics in no particular order: Andrew Sarris, Manny Farber, Jonathan Rosenbaum, J. Hoberman.

I also like Stanley Cavell.

Some favorite movies: La Grande Illusion, Dr. Strangelove, 3 Women, Quills, L'avventura, The Decalogue, Throne of Blood, Breathless, Contempt, The Lady Eve, All About Eve, Vivre Sa Vie, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie...need I go on?

Some favorite books: Herzog by Saul Bellow, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert...

I also have vastly unsatiated appetites for literary criticism, critical theory, alternative forms of independent (rock) music, art history, and ad hominem politicizing.

You might be amused to know that I also add bios on certain homosexual erotic performers. muahahah!