It took me a while to catch up with this one, but when I did, I saw it projected at…
Feature Friday: “The Devils” (1971)
I was looking for a copy of Lair of the White Worm (1988), my favorite Ken Russell film, but couldn’t…
Feature Friday: “The Baby of Mâcon” (1993)
Time Magazine, Peter Greenaway had you beat back in 1993—and then some. Below the jump you’ll find the polemical Welsh…
We would gladly have repainted the trees and the sky
Peter Greenway’s film A Zed & Two Noughts (A.K.A. Z00) [1985] begins with a swan crashing into a car, killing…
This is the book I’m most looking forward to this year
And it’s a reprint, and I already own the original: It’s that good.
An Interview with Me at Untoward
just went up—well, Part One did, in which Matt Rowan asks me questions about my first book (Amazing Adult Fantasy),…
Jerry Lewis’s “The Ladies Man”: The Dollhouse and the Forbidden Room
He’s become a punchline here in the US, but that doesn’t make Jerry Lewis any less of a cinematic genius.…
The Barthelme Problem
[This post is something of a response to John’s recent post, and some of the comments made there by Darby,…
Style as Imitation
1. My father, who once trained as a baker, taught me when I was a kid how to bake an…
Hail the New Puritan
Hail the New Puritan (1987) is a feature-length film directed by Charles Atlas. The choreography is by a very young…