Ruminations: Film

Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)

Double Feature Series #1: Man's Search for Meaning

Double Feature Series #2: Mob Justice

Quick, Dirty, and Dismissive Movie Reviews for the New Year

Heidegger, Disney, & David Lynch

5 Great Performances by Women in Film (with Honourable Mentions)

Double Feature Series #3: Sex, Love, & Jealousy

To The Reader

Reader, thou hast here an honest blog; it doth at the outset forewarn thee that, in contriving the same, I have proposed to myself no other than a domestic and private end: I have had no consideration at all either to thy service or to my glory. My powers are not capable of any such design. I have dedicated it to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends, so that, having lost me (which they must do shortly), they may therein recover some traits of my conditions and humours, and by that means preserve more whole, and more life-like, the knowledge they had of me...I desire therein to be viewed as I appear in mine own genuine, simple, and ordinary manner, without study and artifice: for it is myself I paint. My defects are therein to be read to the life, and any imperfections are my natural form, so far as public reverence hath permitted me.

Thus, reader, myself am the matter of my book: there’s no reason thou shouldst employ thy leisure about so frivolous and vain a subject.

Therefore, farewell.

- [Rowan] De [Anderson], "To the reader"