Without the state

Pete Postlethwaite RIP

 

A tearjerker moment at the best of times...

IKEA Heights

IKEA Heights from DaveAOK on Vimeo.

The soap opera Ikea Heights is a melodrama shot entirely in the Burbank California Store without the store knowing. (via Deconcrete via Hyperallergic)

Men are not romantic...

...drunken renderings of "Lady in Red", notwithstanding! That's what is often claimed anyway. Not true of course, and in evidence I offer from "The English Patient", a film made by a man, based on a book written by a man and now selected by a man, one of the most romantic scenes in any film!

 

Why do I think this is romantic? Well, it is impossible to see this scene and not be caught up in it, to be captured by its sheer joyousness. More analytically, it shows the man literally putting his entire body into giving pleasure to the woman. This effort whilst romantic in itself is also a metaphor for the physical relationship between them and through that metaphor says much more about their physical relationship than any of the the usual soft porn bedroom gymnastics ever could.

Brilliant video showing turn of the century New Jersey