Tag Archives: film
Edouard Salier’s FLESH
Flesh, Edouard Salier, 2005 The Empire unveils everything but sees nothing Its enemies idealize everything but tolerate nothing. For some the earthly orgasm of virtual whores, For others the eternal orgasm of 70 heavenly virgins. What if it all came … more…
Delicatessen soundtrack
I finally tracked down a copy of the soundtrack album for Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s Delicatessen. It’s nowhere to be found on Amazon, and the usually reliable AllMusic Database knows nothing about it. SoundtrackCollector, however, tells me it was … more…
The Simpsons Movie, Canavan’s (probably reliable) verdict
Sad to relate, Gerry Canavan, with whom I seem to agree more often than not, has confirmed my fears concerning The Simpsons Movie: Somewhere around year twelve or so we all suddenly realized that the show was no longer funny—and … more…
Nova Express video mashup
As Posthuman Blues notes, there’s a very satisfying body of Burroughs-related clips appearing on YouTube, and this is the most notable amongst the recently made. It also has a branding flourish at the beginning which, while a tad over-long, is … more…
Bushaneers
From Pranks.com, and very nicely done… (via Easy Bake Coven)
links for 2007-07-11: love on campus
The American Scholar – Love on Campus – By William Deresiewicz It has become a kind of suppressed cultural memory, a haunting imaginative possibility. In our sex-stupefied, anti-intellectual culture, the eros of souls has become the love that dares not … more…
Joseph Cornell at UbuWeb:
Rose Hobart (1936)
Joseph Cornell, Rose Hobart (1936) This is the kind of art which is no longer possible under an aggressively self-interested IP regime — made from footage taken from East of Borneo (1931), Cornell’s film concentrates on the lead actress, taking … more…
The Singing Ringing Tree
Rather to my surprise — seeing this for the first time since 1964, when I was five years old — The Singing Ringing Tree (1957) managed to be almost as weird as I remembered it. The highlights reel you see … more…
Kwaidan (1964)
A VHS copy of Kwaidan (1964) came my way a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t get to look at it until this weekend. It’s a portmanteau of four ghost stories, rather uneven as regards the quality of the … more…