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Short things:
1. I'd never even heard of Cyber Monday until this year. What is it? I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
2. R.I.P., Ken Russell. I should find somewhere to start with him that isn't The Lair of the White Worm (1988). The Devils (1971) is only coming out on Region 2.
3. I wonder why Roddy McDowall was not also cast in the film version of No Time for Sergeants. (Those are some of the dorkiest glasses in stage history.) The other two principals were: it made Andy Griffith a star. It's not exactly as though he was an unknown property.
4. I'm not sure I see the point of having a book on Derek Jarman reviewed by someone who clearly didn't like his films very much. I'm glad Bray finds his paintings important, because I know very little about Jarman's non-cinematic art, and I hope someday to visit his garden at Dungeness, ideally with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rushthatspeaks, but seriously: difficult? Hard to sit through? Sententious gesture politics? Well-intentioned? I have to wonder if we saw the same movies—I am never sure what to do with criticism when that happens. (Did he miss how much of Wittgenstein (1993) is funny?) Personally, I'm looking forward to Sebastiane (1976); I have been since I knew it existed. Brian Eno did the music and it's in Latin.
5. Aphorisms by Kafka, which I hadn't even known existed. Commentary by Michael Cisco, who probably does.
I must catch a bus.
1. I'd never even heard of Cyber Monday until this year. What is it? I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
2. R.I.P., Ken Russell. I should find somewhere to start with him that isn't The Lair of the White Worm (1988). The Devils (1971) is only coming out on Region 2.
3. I wonder why Roddy McDowall was not also cast in the film version of No Time for Sergeants. (Those are some of the dorkiest glasses in stage history.) The other two principals were: it made Andy Griffith a star. It's not exactly as though he was an unknown property.
4. I'm not sure I see the point of having a book on Derek Jarman reviewed by someone who clearly didn't like his films very much. I'm glad Bray finds his paintings important, because I know very little about Jarman's non-cinematic art, and I hope someday to visit his garden at Dungeness, ideally with
rushthatspeaks, but seriously: difficult? Hard to sit through? Sententious gesture politics? Well-intentioned? I have to wonder if we saw the same movies—I am never sure what to do with criticism when that happens. (Did he miss how much of Wittgenstein (1993) is funny?) Personally, I'm looking forward to Sebastiane (1976); I have been since I knew it existed. Brian Eno did the music and it's in Latin.5. Aphorisms by Kafka, which I hadn't even known existed. Commentary by Michael Cisco, who probably does.
I must catch a bus.
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Totally. I think it's the next one on our queue, once
The Angelic Conversation or Glitterbug would be a good one to put on after.
The Angelic Conversation is the one I turned out to have owned on Italian-subtitled DVD since 2009, under the impression it was just the soundtrack by Coil. We have no idea how that happened.
(Glitterbug, which was assembled posthumously from Jarman's super-8 shorts, has a phenomenal soundtrack by Brian Eno as well.)
I will definitely want to see that. I love the short "Art of Mirrors."
I'll soon be posting a video essay about Caravaggio that I just finished, so hopefully will help you value it a bit more.
It was my first Jarman: I loved it when I saw it. I never wrote it up properly, but Nigel Terry. Sean Bean. Sean Bean making love to Tilda Swinton with gold coins. Tilda Swinton, my God. It just happened that I love Benjamin Britten, so War Requiem, and, who knew, apparently I love Wittgenstein. I look forward to your essay!
Just need to solve some annoying problems of compressing the video file without causing havoc to the imagery.
(Got nothing. I write all mine.)