About
I’m a nearly-25 year old aspiring something-or-the-other with a BA in Literature taking some time off before I take the plunge into grad school.
My life motto:
“Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.” -Henry James
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A few…
Favorite Films
Before Sunset (2004)
Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) (1961)
L’Eclisse (1963)
Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) (1964)
Les quatres cent coups (The 400 Blows) (1959)
Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
Nashville (1975)
2046 (2005)
Holiday (1938)
Vendredi Soir (Friday Night) (2002)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Favorite Books
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Please contact me at jesse.ataide@gmail.com.
Beautiful web site!! Thank you for sharing your gifts with the world. I was especially pleased to find the lyrics to Nicki Giovanni’s poem in tribute to Nina Simone: “Young Gifted and Black” at a time when they ring true to me. (Ironically I too am neither young nor black … maybe gifted, but maybe just plain crazy ) I appreciate your wonderfully lyrical film criticism and look forward to discovering the films you have critiqued.
- msafire@diaryland.com
Thank you for stopping by and commenting, msafire, your kind words are very much appreciated. I love that Giovanni poem–one of the reasons I posted it, of course–as I really think it gets to essence of Simone and her artistic philosophy and legacy. As someone not black either (though I do fall under young and a bit gifted too, I like to think), the comment she makes during a performance of “Young, Gifted and Black” that the song “is not addressed primarily to white people, though it does not put you down in any way, it simply… ignores you” is one of my favorite Nina moments–I break out in a smile every time. She was just so good.
trying to find a way to contact you–can i post your review of PHANTOM on my website???? if yes i’d like to use your full name you caan email direct thru my site http://www.ninamenkes.com
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