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At nothing you'll wake and be back in your bodies
Happy equinox! Of course it is in the high eighties and will thunder later this afternoon, but all the same it is autumn. The ghosts turn with the light.
In just over a week, I will be in NYC for Monstrous Birth: Tales from the Haunted Womb, the group reading at Q.E.D. to benefit Planned Parenthood. If you live in Astoria, or even if you don't, come and hear! I will be reading from a story no one's heard.
Boris Karloff had such a beautiful voice. I think it was disguised for me by years of How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966), where I grew used to the music without thinking of it as belonging to anyone. He could speak like he was singing.
In just over a week, I will be in NYC for Monstrous Birth: Tales from the Haunted Womb, the group reading at Q.E.D. to benefit Planned Parenthood. If you live in Astoria, or even if you don't, come and hear! I will be reading from a story no one's heard.
Boris Karloff had such a beautiful voice. I think it was disguised for me by years of How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966), where I grew used to the music without thinking of it as belonging to anyone. He could speak like he was singing.
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I should see that one again. Unlike many movies which have been described to me as weird, that one was legitimately it. It managed to feel like black magic and science fiction without anything but the imprint of historical atrocity and human perversity.
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That is also a legitimate point.
Karloff is actually one of the actors where I don't know where I saw them first. I know I heard him first as the narrator of The Grinch, because that was a holiday staple of my family as far back as I can remember. But in terms of physical presence onscreen? I know I'd seen the 1932 Mummy by my senior year of high school, because it put me off that the 1999 Mummy wasn't it. I genuinely can't remember if my parents had shown me Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein by then. Or if I had glanced off one of his non-horror movies in the interim. I wish I had been able to imprint on him in Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace. He always seems to have been there. This makes a certain degree of pop-cultural sense, but is kind of ridiculous for purposes of criticism.
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It did showcase his hands, though.
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You are likely very much aware that the Harvard Film Archive is doing B-Fest, but are you aware that one of the films is "The Man They Could Not Hang"? It's like an elaborate dream from the subconscious of a film student who has a crush on Karloff and watches a lot of gangster movies. It is gentle and sad and weird, and I could not recommend it more highly if you haven't already seen it.
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Bedlam (1946).
You are likely very much aware that the Harvard Film Archive is doing B-Fest, but are you aware that one of the films is "The Man They Could Not Hang"?
Yes! I was just there tonight for the Lewton double feature and wondering if you were aware that one of the films is The Face Behind the Mask (1941).
I have an apple-picking engagement on the day of The Man They Could Not Hang, but if we are back in time I am hoping to make it. Also it's backed with The Crime of Dr. Crespi (1935) and that has Dwight Frye.
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Thank you! Hello to your spring.