<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post1962962144629052418..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>15</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2790896749845999860</id><published>2009-10-22T03:27:43.527-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T03:27:43.527-04:00</updated><title type='text'>For your information, no one in the audience at la...</title><summary type='text'>For your information, no one in the audience at last night&amp;#39;s screening in Utrecht, the Netherlands (middle-aged couples, young girls, thirtysomethings etc) guffawed at the last scene or left before the credits had (nearly) finished. In fact, everyone was quiet, seemingly as touched as I was. There may not have been that many people, but it&amp;#39;s not the number of people that go see a film </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/2790896749845999860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/2790896749845999860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1256196463527#c2790896749845999860' title=''/><author><name>Maarten Das</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01462928302678576397</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9gIh8GibJgw/SYshKSsbJvI/AAAAAAAAADs/GB-PS_jWKOI/S220/ik+voor+sol+lewitt+2.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1196064588"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 22, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6189773738491014845</id><published>2009-10-20T10:47:54.556-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-20T10:47:54.556-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;d forgotten about Orlando, an interesting fi...</title><summary type='text'>I&amp;#39;d forgotten about Orlando, an interesting film, albeit not about a writer, but a writer&amp;#39;s fantasy projection of an alter-ego who is also simultaneously a love object. &lt;br /&gt;Orlando is certainly much more interesting than the real relationship between Virginia and Vita was, but, again, it&amp;#39;s not about writing a poem (or a story) but a dramatic action.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/6189773738491014845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/6189773738491014845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1256050074556#c6189773738491014845' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1656096086270697850</id><published>2009-10-20T07:30:18.540-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-20T07:30:18.540-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Maybe for the first time ever, I agree with Curtis...</title><summary type='text'>Maybe for the first time ever, I agree with Curtis.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/1656096086270697850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/1656096086270697850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1256038218540#c1656096086270697850' title=''/><author><name>Ernesto</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03953877785664466289</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oYts0In9TCA/SmhwUPG48rI/AAAAAAAAAIc/hRkMdd4DUcg/S220/scribe.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1208458607"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1787197549507142726</id><published>2009-10-20T00:58:45.736-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-20T00:58:45.736-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Man, I was just pleased to see signs of comedic Ke...</title><summary type='text'>Man, I was just pleased to see signs of comedic Keats in Bright Star.  (I&amp;#39;m amazed at how little delved into is Keats&amp;#39;s comedic nature.  There are some great works on this, though few.)  Campion&amp;#39;s movie, I thought, did a pretty good job of capturing Keats&amp;#39;s mercurial nature and suggesting that Keats&amp;#39;s poems evolved from that mix....</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/1787197549507142726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/1787197549507142726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1256014725736#c1787197549507142726' title=''/><author><name>Michael Theune</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08121953357805380434</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-971320363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8420508676412653857</id><published>2009-10-20T00:26:26.161-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-20T00:26:26.161-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Cy,&#xa;&#xa;I think I remember the scene you&amp;#39;re refer...</title><summary type='text'>Cy,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I remember the scene you&amp;#39;re referring to. It is chilling, particularly when Tom lifts his eyes to the middle distance and mutters in a sepulchral voice, &amp;quot;I think we are in Rats Alley where the dead men lost their bones&amp;quot;--apparently realizing that the line described his relationship with Viv. Yeah, Tom and Viv has its moments, but Dafoe, despite his </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/8420508676412653857'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/8420508676412653857'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1256012786161#c8420508676412653857' title=''/><author><name>David Grove</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03020484032408233158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tknn7_LQTIA/SseM9gXBnZI/AAAAAAAAAJk/RQjDgYkwCic/S220/DSC00064.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1761473950"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3017657291715179424</id><published>2009-10-19T19:06:36.951-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T19:06:36.951-04:00</updated><title type='text'>In literature, with language, we can get inside th...</title><summary type='text'>In literature, with language, we can get inside the mental processes of the characters, and external events (especially natural events like trees in storms, and wrinkling brooks etc.) can be used symbolically, through the description, to become the very &amp;quot;stuff&amp;quot; of which the poetic imagination is composed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keats, as man, had a certain life.  External events.  Any man&amp;#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/3017657291715179424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/3017657291715179424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1255993596951#c3017657291715179424' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4647992838398933371</id><published>2009-10-19T17:30:03.750-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T17:30:03.750-04:00</updated><title type='text'>David - how about &amp;quot;Tom and Viv&amp;quot;? It&amp;#39;...</title><summary type='text'>David - how about &amp;quot;Tom and Viv&amp;quot;? It&amp;#39;s been a few years since I saw it, but I recall a scene with Eliot and Vivien reading &amp;quot;They Do the Police In Different Voices&amp;quot; out loud being quite chilling.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/4647992838398933371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/4647992838398933371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1255987803750#c4647992838398933371' title=''/><author><name>Cy Mathews</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03244437975709553222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b4REVX6FKWI/SsgCjedVorI/AAAAAAAAAF4/cdRZQuD8NPU/S220/cy.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1685508273"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1303005950592966906</id><published>2009-10-19T17:26:29.972-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T17:26:29.972-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I wish there were people with blue skin.</title><summary type='text'>I wish there were people with blue skin.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/1303005950592966906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/1303005950592966906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1255987589972#c1303005950592966906' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6752494382607886878</id><published>2009-10-19T15:50:19.115-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T15:50:19.115-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, guess Im just one of those over 60 generic w...</title><summary type='text'>Well, guess Im just one of those over 60 generic weepy-lovers, &amp;#39;cause I dug the film a lot. The performances I found almost uniformly excellent (especially the one you objected to Ron, I found Schiender&amp;#39;s performance as Keats&amp;#39; friend and patron unexpectedly compelling as a demonstration of what I have often encountered in my life, a poetry lover who isn&amp;#39;t very good at poetry </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/6752494382607886878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/6752494382607886878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1255981819115#c6752494382607886878' title=''/><author><name>Lally</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1UZ-EklSnDQ/SmYOuxD4uAI/AAAAAAAAAVk/PdRO4wGXgaQ/S220/Lally2_bw.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-778757446"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4892578290701278890</id><published>2009-10-19T12:05:25.305-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T12:05:25.305-04:00</updated><title type='text'>You really wanted to write &amp;quot;chick flick&amp;quot;...</title><summary type='text'>You really wanted to write &amp;quot;chick flick&amp;quot; I&amp;#39;m thinking, then caught yourself just in time, not wanting to deal with hoards of women in pantaloons, a word which should be played like a percussion instrument if played at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pax&lt;br /&gt;Loudon</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/4892578290701278890'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/4892578290701278890'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1255968325305#c4892578290701278890' title=''/><author><name>Radish King</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06534752971317927559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='http://static.flickr.com/54/142341732_5c3580d6ba_o.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-597158701"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8369019397317794995</id><published>2009-10-19T11:34:16.553-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T11:34:16.553-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting comment, Curtis. I have to disagree so...</title><summary type='text'>Interesting comment, Curtis. I have to disagree somewhat, and actually come down on Ron&amp;#39;s side. There are ways to capture the &amp;quot;mental phenomena&amp;quot; or process of composition, the act of genius. One of the great movies, in this respect, is Amadeus. Who can forget the segue when Mozart&amp;#39;s bellowing mother is turned into the Queen of the Night? Who can forget when Mozart transforms </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/8369019397317794995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/8369019397317794995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1255966456553#c8369019397317794995' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-328297626"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3526310120680826816</id><published>2009-10-19T11:14:03.121-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T11:14:03.121-04:00</updated><title type='text'>at the screening I attended, no one moved until th...</title><summary type='text'>at the screening I attended, no one moved until the credits were finished.  The crowd was mostly 60+ but tiny (in Chicago).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, it isn&amp;#39;t about Keats, but about Fanny.  I wouldn&amp;#39;t call it a weepy, but I guess that isn&amp;#39;t unfair.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/3526310120680826816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/3526310120680826816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1255965243121#c3526310120680826816' title=''/><author><name>Daniel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07762154977250019269</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1863164286"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9016021613601321346</id><published>2009-10-19T10:10:34.513-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T10:10:34.513-04:00</updated><title type='text'>How could anyone make a movie about a writer that ...</title><summary type='text'>How could anyone make a movie about a writer that didn&amp;#39;t overestimate--or distort--the relationship between life event and its consequence in the work?  This is the bathos of the biographical.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no way to visualize the mental processes--the &amp;quot;inspiration&amp;quot;--of literary expression.  Writing isn&amp;#39;t &amp;quot;performance&amp;quot; which is why acting and reading differ, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/9016021613601321346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/9016021613601321346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1255961434513#c9016021613601321346' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4002293806857756390</id><published>2009-10-19T08:13:38.879-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T08:13:38.879-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,&#xa;&#xa;Interesting piece. Senior date night sounds ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesting piece. Senior date night sounds hot. (Do you know the film Cloud Nine?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thought you and your readers might be interested in the discussion of Campion&amp;#39;s use/misuse of Keats&amp;#39;s writings, in the comments thread here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/snow-has-fallen-winter-1819.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Snow Has Fallen (Winter 1819)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/4002293806857756390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/4002293806857756390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1255954418879#c4002293806857756390' title=''/><author><name>TC</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1286882865"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4213193284588103355</id><published>2009-10-19T06:52:46.935-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T06:52:46.935-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Offhand, the only good films about famous poets I ...</title><summary type='text'>Offhand, the only good films about famous poets I can think of are An Angel at My Table--also by Jane Campion--and Cocteau&amp;#39;s Orphée. There must be at least a few others, but at the moment they escape me.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/4213193284588103355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1962962144629052418/comments/default/4213193284588103355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html?showComment=1255949566935#c4213193284588103355' title=''/><author><name>David Grove</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03020484032408233158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tknn7_LQTIA/SseM9gXBnZI/AAAAAAAAAJk/RQjDgYkwCic/S220/DSC00064.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/bright-star-jane-campions-portrait-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1962962144629052418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1962962144629052418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1761473950"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 19, 2009"/></entry></feed>