<?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.post2644549136433958448..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/3738579/2644549136433958448/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/paul-thomas-anderson-makes-intelligent.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>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-890829015347772947</id><published>2008-01-31T10:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-31T10:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Orwelle watched Ford&#39;s &quot;Stagecoach&quot; obsessively wh...</title><summary type='text'>Orwelle watched Ford&#39;s &quot;Stagecoach&quot; obsessively while making Kane--the idea that grounding oneself this way results in a derivative film is ridiculous.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2644549136433958448/comments/default/890829015347772947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2644549136433958448/comments/default/890829015347772947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/paul-thomas-anderson-makes-intelligent.html?showComment=1201792800000#c890829015347772947' 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/2008/01/paul-thomas-anderson-makes-intelligent.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2644549136433958448' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2644549136433958448' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1560739242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 31, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7172113294589960779</id><published>2008-01-31T00:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-31T00:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>tried to comment yesterday, but I think a glitch i...</title><summary type='text'>tried to comment yesterday, but I think a glitch in the technological world foiled my plans...the gist was that Daniel Day Lewis is the finest English language film actor ever, and that includes Brando and Muni.  Though I feel a certain degree of back lash against him because of his cultural pedigree and the fact that critics adore him, one need only look again at his performance in &quot;In The Name </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2644549136433958448/comments/default/7172113294589960779'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2644549136433958448/comments/default/7172113294589960779'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/paul-thomas-anderson-makes-intelligent.html?showComment=1201758420000#c7172113294589960779' title=''/><author><name>Levari</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03797267895979862964</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.glennmcdonald.com/images/Marian%20McPartland%20%20-%20Jazz%20portrait,%20A%20Great%20Day%20in%20Harlem%20-%201958.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/paul-thomas-anderson-makes-intelligent.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2644549136433958448' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2644549136433958448' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1958627702"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 31, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7845125732499538122</id><published>2008-01-30T13:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-30T13:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I like your post, but i really responded to the fi...</title><summary type='text'>I like your post, but i really responded to the film more enthusiastically. I think it is a visceral psychological character study of an important character type at a time in our country when we are trying to make sense of destruction. i think its an important, political even, film because it goes beyond the fear-based analysis of destructive people that most films present, and hones in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2644549136433958448/comments/default/7845125732499538122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2644549136433958448/comments/default/7845125732499538122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/paul-thomas-anderson-makes-intelligent.html?showComment=1201717080000#c7845125732499538122' title=''/><author><name>Zachary Pelham</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14554390275055996646</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/2008/01/paul-thomas-anderson-makes-intelligent.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2644549136433958448' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2644549136433958448' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-234165413"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7356267398156687368</id><published>2008-01-30T09:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-30T09:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I haven&#39;t seen Treasure of the Sierra Madre for pr...</title><summary type='text'>I haven&#39;t seen &lt;I&gt;Treasure of the Sierra Madre&lt;/I&gt; for probably many years. I was probably 16 at the time, and like many of the things I read and watched at that time, I could probably benefit from rewatching. But I&#39;m not sure if a one-to-one correlation, or what Curtis calls &quot;derivative,&quot; is really the right frame of reference. I mean, I can&#39;t imagine Humphrey Bogart bludgeoning anyone to death.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2644549136433958448/comments/default/7356267398156687368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2644549136433958448/comments/default/7356267398156687368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/paul-thomas-anderson-makes-intelligent.html?showComment=1201702080000#c7356267398156687368' title=''/><author><name>Patrick Dillon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04175884937968045605</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/2008/01/paul-thomas-anderson-makes-intelligent.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2644549136433958448' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2644549136433958448' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1634681312"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6126535679843031136</id><published>2008-01-29T10:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-29T10:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I haven&#39;t seen the movie yet, but I&#39;d feel cheated...</title><summary type='text'>I haven&#39;t seen the movie yet, but I&#39;d feel cheated knowing the director had focused too obsessively on Treasure of the Sierra Madre.  The idea of recreating the spirit, and individual performance of a great actor, seems destined to inspire a derivative film.  Ultimately you want to make a (great) original movie that defines its story on its own terms, rather than those of the &quot;model&quot;; it might be</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2644549136433958448/comments/default/6126535679843031136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2644549136433958448/comments/default/6126535679843031136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/paul-thomas-anderson-makes-intelligent.html?showComment=1201622280000#c6126535679843031136' 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/2008/01/paul-thomas-anderson-makes-intelligent.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2644549136433958448' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2644549136433958448' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 29, 2008"/></entry></feed>