[Update: Part 2 is here] Re: Greg’s most recent post on the term “avant-garde”—I’ve already discussed this somewhat here, here…
Mario Is the New Mickey
I never understood Mickey Mouse’s appeal. He frightened me as a child, always striking me as a freakish fellow. I…
Schrödinger’s Laura
I had a stray thought recently about Otto Preminger’s classic 1944 noir Laura (1944), based on Vera Caspary’s 1943 novel…
Features
Noticing last September that the Features section of this site was blank, I began embedding there feature-length films that are…
What’s So New about the New Sentence?
The new sentence, like all other “new” phenomena and movements (the New Criticism, the New Novel, the New Narrative, dozens…
In Memory of Don Van Vliet, AKA Captain Beefheart
Every obit will mention front and center his 1969 masterpiece, Trout Mask Replica; I’ll be no exception, because that’s the…
…It’s Time to Mystify (13 Great Films)
In the spirit of Greg’s list from yesterday: 1. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)
We Know Best What’s Nearest (Living Art Backwards)
A quick follow-up to Tim’s post here, which was itself in response to Jackie Wang’s post here. Wang had asked:…
What’s So New about New Wave?
I’ve outlined some of the following in my Looking at Movements series of posts (more of which are forthcoming),…
Announcing My First Book, Amazing Adult Fantasy
Please excuse this bit of self-promotion, but my first prose collection, Amazing Adult Fantasy, will be put out by Mutable…