What’s happening in this image? The leftmost light bulb is exploding. Why would it do that? Perhaps it wanted to?…
Feature Friday: “Maroooned in Iraq” (2002)
I first came across Bahman Ghobadi while living in Bloomington-Normal; the Normal Theater showed A Time for Drunken Horses (2000).…
ABR reviewed Big Other
Here, as part of a larger feature on “Book Blogs.” (The review is by Mary Miller.) (To read the whole…
Group Reading William H. Gass’s The Tunnel
FYI, Scott Esposito is leading a group reading of William H. Gass’s The Tunnel over at Conversational Reading. It’s three…
Feature Friday: “Scenes from a Marriage” (1973)
Following Love Letter, something slightly bitterer. Supposedly, the divorce rate at Big Other skyrocketed after this post.
Feature Friday: “Love Letter” (1995)
I’ll never understand why Shunji Iwai’s films never caught on in the States. He’s been immensely popular in Japan since…
Featureless Friday: “Meshes of the Afternoon” (1943)
I’ve learned more from Maya Deren than from many features I’ve seen. And so I was very pleased to see…
Harry Mathews Roundtable
The Quarterly Conversation has posted a roundtable on the great Harry Mathews, including essays by Dan Visel and Ed Park …
Feature Friday: “Dark Star” (1974)
I caught up with Dark Star only a few years back, at one of the Music Box‘s science-fiction marathons. I…
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…