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From “Doom House” to “Mood House”: How Simple Aesthetic Strategies Can Create Experimental Films, part 1

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Stephen King, Jerry Lewis, The Ladies Man, Something Awful, Mood House, Doom House, Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, Kevin Bowen, continuity editing, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Adam Sandler, Billy Madison, Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, The Jerk, Richard Kyanka on May 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Yesterday I found myself thinking about a short film I first saw in 2005 or so—”Mood House”: It’s a very curious video, and it’s stayed with me ever since (especially the line, “You’re not garbage, and I don’t know why you were treated like garbage!”). I admire it and have long wanted to write something [...]

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Jerry Lewis’s “The Ladies Man”: The Dollhouse and the Forbidden Room

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Absolute Beginners, Ava Adore, Dom and Nic, Donald Barthelme, Gangs of New York, Jean Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jerry Lewis, Julien Temple, Lolita, Martin Scorsese, Peter Greenaway, Smashing Pumpkins, Sylvia Lewis, The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, The Ladies Man, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Tout va bien, Wes Anderson on May 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »

He’s become a punchline here in the US, but that doesn’t make Jerry Lewis any less of a cinematic genius. Case in point: his 1961 masterpiece The Ladies Man: Whether you’re a fan of Lewis’s eccentric comedy or not, this film is worth watching for its legendary “dollhouse” set alone, supposedly the largest built by [...]

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From “Doom House” to “Mood House”: How Simple Aesthetic Strategies Can Create Experimental Films, part 1

Jerry Lewis’s “The Ladies Man”: The Dollhouse and the Forbidden Room

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