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People say that your dreams are the only things that save you
For about half an hour the sky went sulfur-colored and a small typhoon fell out of it, complete with thunder and electrical brownouts. Now the sky is suffused with a sort of purplish apricot neon that makes the clouds and the wet streets and windows look like the color out of Walter Hill. Have some links.
1. I rate a mention in Michael Dirda's NecronomiCon report: "While I spoke briefly about 'The Sandman' and that phantasmagoric mind-boggler 'The Golden Pot,' one of the con's seven guests of honor, Sonya Taaffe, dazzled with her insights into Hoffmann's influence on contemporary film." Since several other panelists also talked about film, I think he must be referring to the point where I was considering Psycho (1960) out loud through the lens of "Der Sandmann." I'm really pleased. I was not expecting a shout-out in the Washington Post.
2. I do not like the new website of the Harvard Film Archive, partly because it takes forever to load on my computer and partly because all of my old links are now broken, but I appreciate that their next major program is The B-Film: Low-Budget Hollywood Cinema 1935–1959. I have seen a number of these movies, but not most of them in a theater, and I will cheerfully rewatch their cinematography at size. Of the ones I haven't seen, I have already pencilled in the double feature of Val Lewton's The Leopard Man (1943) and The Ghost Ship (1943) and am deeply looking forward to Anna May Wong and Philip Ahn in Daughter of Shanghai (1937).
3. The situation with Saturday's hate march in Boston and the violent response of police protection is receiving wider attention. It's not a pretty picture.
"Rebellion (Lies)" was the first song I ever heard by Arcade Fire; I got it from a mix CD a fellow grad student made for me in 2005. She called it One Song You Want and Fourteen Filler, with the predictable result that some of the filler is now more important to me than the song. I used to play it for all-nighters. It is probably not a good sign that I am listening to it on repeat again. I have a nice day and it reminds me what a fingernail margin of stamina I have.
1. I rate a mention in Michael Dirda's NecronomiCon report: "While I spoke briefly about 'The Sandman' and that phantasmagoric mind-boggler 'The Golden Pot,' one of the con's seven guests of honor, Sonya Taaffe, dazzled with her insights into Hoffmann's influence on contemporary film." Since several other panelists also talked about film, I think he must be referring to the point where I was considering Psycho (1960) out loud through the lens of "Der Sandmann." I'm really pleased. I was not expecting a shout-out in the Washington Post.
2. I do not like the new website of the Harvard Film Archive, partly because it takes forever to load on my computer and partly because all of my old links are now broken, but I appreciate that their next major program is The B-Film: Low-Budget Hollywood Cinema 1935–1959. I have seen a number of these movies, but not most of them in a theater, and I will cheerfully rewatch their cinematography at size. Of the ones I haven't seen, I have already pencilled in the double feature of Val Lewton's The Leopard Man (1943) and The Ghost Ship (1943) and am deeply looking forward to Anna May Wong and Philip Ahn in Daughter of Shanghai (1937).
3. The situation with Saturday's hate march in Boston and the violent response of police protection is receiving wider attention. It's not a pretty picture.
"Rebellion (Lies)" was the first song I ever heard by Arcade Fire; I got it from a mix CD a fellow grad student made for me in 2005. She called it One Song You Want and Fourteen Filler, with the predictable result that some of the filler is now more important to me than the song. I used to play it for all-nighters. It is probably not a good sign that I am listening to it on repeat again. I have a nice day and it reminds me what a fingernail margin of stamina I have.
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I cannot bear the news of that "parade." It's ARGH.
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Thank you! I was not expecting it.
I cannot bear the news of that "parade." It's ARGH.
It is.
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I'm really looking forward! The Ghost Ship is one I know almost nothing about, actually. Except I suspect I will like it.
(Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen any Val Lewton on a big screen.)
The only time I have ever seen The Seventh Victim (1943) was at the HFA, but I think that's it. Really any Val Lewton in a theater should look amazing.
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Absolutely! I will probably not know until we get closer to November, but I would love if you came.
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I wish I could loan you a teleporter! I waited for it to come around on TCM and by this point had more or less resigned myself to having to track it down on a greymarket site someday. Maybe if it comes back to prominence there will be a Blu-Ray/DVD. It's not like Anna May Wong doesn't deserve it. (Or Philip Ahn, whom I have seen only in scattered roles, but had charisma all over them and was incidentally the racism-defying best part of a musical once.)
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Thank you! This is sort of typical of my relationship with the HFA, but at least they consistently run programs I want to see.
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Thank you! I will do my very best to report back. I've never seen her in a starring role.
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*hugs*
I don't know what to do any more. We're pretty much setting our five-ruble notes on fire in our neck of the woods. I remain terrified the adults won't get their passports back from State.
Edit for movies: Have you seen Dragonwyck based on its having Vincent Price in it, and is it as wackyviolent as it sounds?
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What the all parts of that fuck.
*hugs*
I remain terrified the adults won't get their passports back from State.
What is the situation now?
Edit for movies: Have you seen Dragonwyck based on its having Vincent Price in it, and is it as wackyviolent as it sounds?
I've only read the novel! 1944, Anya Seton, absolutely nuts. Classic Gothic with oleander poisoning and all the trimmings. Ends with a dramatic steamboat explosion on the Hudson. How did it cross your radar?
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The novel was on sale this morning and the blurb was like, "Classic motion picture with Gene Tierney and Vincent Price!" So I looked it up and... wow, it sounds like a lot. And in black and white. Apparently it was Price's first bad guy part and OH BOY did he whoop it up.
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No, I think that would raise my blood pressure. I am puzzled by New Hampshire, but will wave to the passports as they go by on their return, which had better be soon.
So I looked it up and... wow, it sounds like a lot. And in black and white. Apparently it was Price's first bad guy part and OH BOY did he whoop it up.
I shall track it down and check it out. I've seen young Vincent Price in Laura (1944), but he's not a villain there so much as a transcendent sleaze.
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Nine
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Thank you.