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  • The remainder of the film builds towards a peculiar crescendo that interweaves the utterly inexplicable nature of the universe (or, if you prefer, "God"), Jewish American culture in the late 1960s/early 1970s, the story of Job, a sort of anti-nostalgia, the inscrutability of mankind, and an almost Fortean spite for anything like comprehension.

    "I see a door, holes in the floor." greygirlbeast 2010

  • The remainder of the film builds towards a peculiar crescendo that interweaves the utterly inexplicable nature of the universe (or, if you prefer, "God"), Jewish American culture in the late 1960s/early 1970s, the story of Job, a sort of anti-nostalgia, the inscrutability of mankind, and an almost Fortean spite for anything like comprehension.

    "I see a door, holes in the floor." greygirlbeast 2010

  • It's often noted that this show was originally anti-nostalgia an antidote and contrast to the straightforward nostalgic pieces that were playing all around New York at the time, like a revised version of No, No, Nanette that was if anything toned down from the original and now it's a nostalgia piece, appealing to the same age group that hated it at the time.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

  • It's often noted that this show was originally anti-nostalgia an antidote and contrast to the straightforward nostalgic pieces that were playing all around New York at the time, like a revised version of No, No, Nanette that was if anything toned down from the original and now it's a nostalgia piece, appealing to the same age group that hated it at the time.

    Random Thoughts on Follies Jaime J. Weinman 2007

  • And he's willing to go to the premiere and embrace this film even though he's so anti-nostalgia?

    Gothamist 2010

  • Keep going even when you have lost the thread, when you no longer feel 'caught up' in the process, when the event itself has become obscure, when its name is lost, or when it seems that it may have named a mistake .... "(p79) Evidently, a key factor in the Fall's status has been exactly this will to keep going, the anti-nostalgia, the unwillingness to call a halt.

    The Fall online - latest Fall News 2008

  • "I've been very anti-nostalgia all my life, always thinking about what I'm going to do next rather than what I've done.

    Berks county news 2009

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