Hass was kind enough to pause his video essays — on everything from the use of color as subtext to the future of digitization in the medium — to talk about his favorite releases of the week.
"I am delighted with the film and am now convinced that only through the medium of the talking picture art could this delicious fantasy be faithfully interpreted," she declared, her words possibly burnished by a Paramount publicist.
While I appreciate the inherent vice and secrecy of the medium, the positive impact of talking more about sex is obvious.
"I knew the painting," Mr. Homem said, "and liked the idea of the film — or using a modern medium to talk about a 16th-century painting".
Robots of medium height talk down to people sitting in chairs, but have to talk up to people who are standing.
Pop culture is one of the most powerful mediums we possess for talking to each other; part of the ongoing conversation in explaining ourselves to each other.
"What kind of questions would you ask to make medium talk, instead of small talk?" asked user Sentinel_P, and the query garnered more than 3,500 comments.
Citing the works of Mike Nichols, Sydney Pollack, Woody Allen and James L Brooks (there's more than a hint of Broadcast News in Josh's growing outrage at the malleability of his chosen medium), Baumbach talks of looking back to the "adult comedies the studios used to make", perhaps acknowledging his own move from the indie sidelines into something more mainstream.
The company is taking the battle to mainstream America with an ad campaign using the old-fashioned medium of prime-time TV to talk about the Web.
The medium of the late-night talk show offers so much to the conversation on race, though.
In Rolling Thunder Logbook (1977), his chronicle of Bob Dylan's 1975 US tour, Sam Shepard writes: "Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head.
