Will Chris Weitz’s new film, A Better Life, improve yours? In a sea of big-budget, special effects-laden summer blockbusters, the director of Twilight: New Moon brings out a much smaller tale of the working poor in Los Angeles. Alex, Dan, and Jeff take a look at A Better Life to see if it provides the kind of poignant, understated experience that is the antithesis of popcorn flicks. Should you be seeking it out? Be sure to check back tomorrow when we play WHAT IS THAT?!
What the Twilight Says: Essays
Derek Walcott has been publishing essays in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and elsewhere for more than twenty years. What the Twilight Says collects these pieces to form a volume of remarkable elegance, concision, and brilliance. It includes Walcott’s moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture, his Nobel lecture, and his reckoning of the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Frost, Les Murray, and Ted Hughes, and of prose writers such as V. S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau. On every subject he takes up, Walcott the essayist brings to bear the lyric power and syncretic intelligence that have made him one of the major poetic voices of our time.
via Total Twi-Hard Fans http://www.totaltwihards.com/a-better-life-review-of-twilight-directors-new-movie/
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