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New New World: An Exchange, A Conversation, An Epigraph
The House Next Door — By Ryland Walker Knight & Keith Uhlich INTRODUCTION The House Next Door's own creation myth is by now well-known, but once more, with feeling... Originally begun as a solo venture by Matt Zoller Seitz, The House's primary aim was to act as an online venue of support for Terrence Malick's The New World. It was exactly three years ago today (January 2nd, 2006) that Matt published the first in a series of articles parsing and ...

VINYL IS PODCAST #10: An unfocused invitation to holler on criteria. [In two parts]
VINYL IS HEAVY — by Dan Callahan, Ryland Walker Knight, Kevin B Lee, and Keith Uhlich [PART ONE] [Podomatic stream] [Direct audio download] [iTunes subscription available] [Simple syndication subscription] [PART TWO] [Podomatic stream] [Direct audio download] [iTunes subscription available] [Simple syndication subscription] RWK here. For our first East Coast podcast, I was joined by some of my best friends in this ...

2008: Lessons and laughs and leaps.
The House Next Door — By Ryland Walker Knight Preamble 1. She lives outside the maze, at play on the pitch, dancing in trees—her life a gambol along our waters. The leaf falls and the branches push up as much as the roots dig ...

HND@Grassroots: Season 2, Episode 14 (32), "The 2008 Wrap-Up Podcast"
The House Next Door — By Evan Davis, Kenji Fujishima, Akiva Gottlieb, Andrew Grant, Aaron Hillis, Glenn Kenny, Ryland Walker Knight, John Lichman, Michelle Orange, Vadim Rizov, Dan Sallitt, and Keith Uhlich [Editor's Note: The views expressed in this podcast are those of the commenters, and do not necessarily reflect the official policies, positions, or opinions of The House Next Door.] INTRODUCTION Hello New Year! We know you all wait with ...

Ratatouille's sense of taste, of place
The House Next Door — by Ryland Walker Knight (Part of Pixar Week) —It starts with a book. A couple years ago I wrote a comparison review pitching Satoshi Kon's Paprika as, if not an answer to, then a conversant partner with Brad Bird's Ratatouille. You can click right here and read it. Watching the film again while preparing the image-essay to follow, I was struck by a few things in my new, two-years-later (more conceptually refined?) toolkit: (1) this isn't simply a movie ...