I caught up with Dark Star only a few years back, at one of the Music Box‘s science-fiction marathons. I…
Review of Shya Scanlon’s Border Run, by Jamie Grefe
Border Run By Shya Scanlon New Dead Families, 2012 Jack Lightning and Jo: Angel calls her “Mrs. Lightning” like she…
Feature Friday: “Je, tu, il, elle” (1976)
Chantal Akerman is probably best-known for her 1975 masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, which is definitely required viewing. But all of her…
“A New Leaf” is finally getting a DVD release
As evidenced here. Release date, September 4th. Which is soon. This is such great news. I think it’s the first…
Feature Friday: “Mikey and Nicky” (1976)
I’ve already happily linked to online copies of two Elaine May films on Feature Friday—The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and A…
So Many Small Plants in the Sun: A Review of Tim Horvath’s UNDERSTORIES
I read a lot of books. Some – most – I read for pleasure, and some for reviewing. Often the…
Feature Friday: “Loves of the Arctic Circle” (1998)
God, I love this film. It’s so beautiful and sad and bittersweet. For a while it was impossible to find…
Melancholia: (An Essay) by Kristina Marie Darling
Ravenna Press, 2012 ISBN: 970-0-9851520-1-7 $10.00 45 pages Kristina Marie Darling is becoming one of the foremost practitioners of the…
Dawn Raffel’s “Literary Pillars”
These disparate pillars (fiction, nonfiction, plays, poetry) might well support a funhouse, which is how I like it. I’ve deliberately…