Art: Movies: The (K)ni(gh)tes of the South Bronx - un hommage to a fine flick!

The Knites of the South Bronx is a beauty of a movie that I saw tonite as I blogged. Well, I half-watched it twice, as they're running it again, back to back, an instant re-run on A&E (don't know if the A&E TV channel is Canadian-broadcast only, or does the channel come out of the States into my Rogers DigitalTV Terminal (which I use for free, except I pay for Fox News Channel ... so I'm continuing to blonguage the movie*, writing it up while I'm half-watchin The (K)Ni(gh)tes a second time around, right now as I compose this very blog for the poets, poem-lovers, and poem-livers ,,, composing a blog entry ... even, I do ostentatiously hope,,,,,,,, for some among the pro litcrits and movie watchers/thinkers (even "film studies" inhabitants, no less) - who may come to this blog for the poetry. By the way do you have a poem you think belongs published on this blog of poetry? Barbara Vallette re-wrote for the purpose of un hommage an e. e. cummings original, honouring her inspiration; we're going to publish digitally the poem for her and him. Ms Valette aka Swanfreak will be a making her début here (first off it will be with this cummings-hommage, bearing a copyright mark and all). Hear me, Babbs? But à propos this very moment, do you have a choice, short piece of poetic-prose or stanza'd verse or free verse of movie-writing of your own composition, dear readers all, a movie-writing that I may be interested in publishing rite hear on Anaximanximum? If so, let's parlay, chez my "semiotics" email address "at" - you might know, "mac.com" period.

The Knites learn to play chess, tawt to play by a longterm substitute teacher (an ex-executive Richard Nathan - played by star actor, Tim Danson in an urbane, gentlemanly role based on a truel life-story).

However, it's the elementary-school class that is the leading star of this show, including in its number a kindergartener who comes to his older sister's 4th Grade class with Mr Nathan, because kindergarten ends eah day when the sister's class with this Mr Nathan, is still in session. As things turn out, this normal boy otherwise, also happens to be an unpretentious math-prodigy. He leads the way almost by accident, all the 4th Graders + 1, together are in the leading role as a unit, the true protagonist. The Knites: It's a lyrical good-for-everybody movie, great-hearted and child-centered. Very convincing in that respect. The Knites begin to compete in Chess matches with other elementary schools. And the plot flows inevitably to its positive conclusion with only the most fringeal tragic elements / moments (thus, technically in litgenre-theory, the film's plot is a comedy). The kid-actors are brilliant! not over-dramatized!, and convincing as distinct characters within the strength of the collective identity and protagonisme; the movie is a marvel of characterization.

What an art-pleasurely work! Rated: good for kids and adults too.

Now I'm gonna Preview this blog entry, Publish it, and View online the product, the poem - an attempt to produce a poetic review of a great movie for you. - Anaximaximum

There's yet another layer, of course: the play upon the inner-semiotic riches of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that gives the computer-screen reader the si(gh)te of bold, italics, underline, "quote marks" and

blockquotes, and all the further other semiotica, phenomena related to fonts and punctuations, English orthography accompanied by purposeful mispelling, which along with the variables just listed are part of the textual poem's playground. -Anax [Here the blockquote endeth.]

* blonguage? should the spelling be "blongwich"? The latter is closer to the Owlbirdbet spelling, for sure.

This blog entry is being cross-posted in poetry-blog Anaximaximum and also in Writtles, an Owlhoot website hosted at dotMac, and devoted to reformational-philosophical semiotics in practice, as well as in the theory thereof, far more popularly-accessible than is any typical academic paper. Movie credits, pans, and praises are accessible here, and an eviscerated version of this review has been posted on the same site by by my sometimes amenuensis, Semiotics. But it takes a few days to get approval. - Anax