"Tih Minh"

I. Here's me earlier this year:

Gorey also claimed to have exhausted the film archives at the Museum of Modern Art. There he immersed himself in the multipart crime epics of Louis Feuillade (not just the famous Fantômas and Les Vampires but the all-but-unseeable Tih Minh and Barrabas, “the greatest movie ever made”)... —Moving Image Source

Now John Crowley says that Tih Minh will be playing at Yale!

Thursday, December 3^rd

4:00 -11:00 pm Special Event

- Tih Minh (Louis Feuillade, 1919, 357 minutes plus two intermissions)

o Accompaniment by Philip Carli and Donald Sosin

o Introduction of silent film musicians by Richard Suchenski (History of Art and Film Studies, Yale), Introduction of film by Richard Maxwell (Comparative Literature and English, Yale)

Pony up

Photographs based on scenes in Le Grand Meaulnes (incidentally, a favorite book of David Mitchell's).




From the Beinecke Library's blog. (Courtesy Dizzyhead Thomas)

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Song of the day: Modern Lovers, "Someone I Care About" (via Moistworks/Ben Greenman)

Naked hunch

What's up with U.K. papers and plagiarism? Dizzyheads are familiar with the Guardian's Stuart Jeffries's still unexplained wholesale borrowing from Dennis Lim; now The Scotsman's Craig Howie appears to have lifted Rachel Aviv's piece from yesterday's Times.

I'd do a point-by-point comparison...except that he's basically cut-and-pasted the entire piece (save for the first graf and a couple of rewordings).

Here's Howie's "Birthday Suit Parties All the Rage for Ivy-League Students."

And here's Aviv's "Black Tie Optional."

Howie has the chutzpah to use entire quotes from the Aviv piece. E.g.:

Aviv: “It’s one of those things people feel they need to do before they graduate,” says Megan Crandell, a senior who estimates that she has been to a half-dozen naked parties during her time at Yale. “The dynamic is completely different from a clothed party. People are so conscious of how they’re coming across that conversations end up being more sophisticated. You can’t talk about how hot that chick was the other night.”

Howie: Megan Crandell, a final-year Yale student who has attended six naked parties, said: "The dynamic is completely different from a clothed party. People are so conscious of how they're coming across that conversations end up being more sophisticated. You can't talk about how hot that chick was the other night."

What gives? (Notice how "senior" becomes "final-year," and "half-dozen" becomes "six.")