3 things about Jeff Nichols’ TAKE SHELTER

Take Shelter [2011]

1. “Is anyone else seeing this?”
2. A knife on the drainboard, covered with flies.
3. He holds out his hand, trembling, keyring looped around his finger.

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October 25 haiku.

Visible from the
Street a window piled high with
Assorted Christmas

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October 24 haiku.

First take this broken
Feeling and make it yours and
Then get out of bed

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October 23 haiku.

At 5:45
A partial solar eclipse
Last chance for 3 years

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October 22 haiku.

Songs about waiting
And songs about hanging up
Songs about leaving

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October 21 haiku.

Five bags on each arm
They haltingly squeeze themselves
Through the taxi’s door

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October 20 haiku.

Across the carpet
Creeps a red wine rivulet
Courtesy her cat

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3 things about Frederick Wiseman’s NATIONAL GALLERY

National Gallery [2014]

1. Varnish. Shiny, buffed floors.
2. A hunting horn, a lobster, a peeled lemon.
3. He collects the tiniest possible sample and places it on a glass slide.

Phenomenal.

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October 19 haiku.

Golden rooftops wet
Shadows dissolving sunset
Hands in your pockets

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3 things about Stuart Rosenberg’s THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN

The Laughing Policeman [1973]

1. Chivas Regal and rubbers.
2. “Did she go out with a lot of men?”
“She didn’t go out with men … at all.”
3. The table legs are actually legs.

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