Caine Blog

Went to a party on Friday night.  An n+1 party.  Yeah.
n+1 parties, it turns out, are precisely what you’d expect.  The veneer of enlightenment - of serious, critical theory - is mostly manifested through name-dropping and job-dropping and school-dropping (speaking of which, I ran into a couple Carleton people, which was what it was), and [...]

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Just saw Let The Right One In at Angelika, and I liked it a lot.
First, it was beautiful: the color is skewed toward eerie blues, which provides a certain nuance to the the film’s subject - vampires, basically - by desaturating the blood.  The cinematography, which focuses on the juxtaposition between Scandinavian modernity and barren [...]

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Rather terrifying video, here.

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