A masterfully collaged prose object, Gabriel Blackwell’s Madeleine E. (Outpost19) defies categorization, privileging fusion and hybridity while also openly displaying…
From Madeleine E.
[INT. Scottie’s Bedroom (NIGHT)] … There is no dead matter. Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms…
Icons
I’m not a great cinema-goer, but in the last few weeks I’ve been twice. Both times I saw a film…
A Sequence on Sequence, Pt. 1
Those notecards? My book, in sum. On each ruled side [not pictured], the first and last sentence of a…
The cover of Roxane Gay’s AYITI reminds me of the opening credits for PANIC ROOM
Which is also to say—
Announcing the Summer 2011 Issue of Requited
The Summer 2011 issue of Requited is now online. It features: fiction by Josh Collins, Jess Upshaw Glass, Suzanne Scanlon,…
Brevity, Part 3: Long Takes Continued (well, they’re long)
While writing my previous post, I grew aware that I wasn’t mentioning any women filmmakers. So I’d like to add…
Brevity, Part 2: Long Takes
Some of us have been discussing long takes in movies, and John mentioned that he’d like seeing a list of…