Friday, March 15, 2024
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Friday, March 8, 2024
Drôle de drame, 1937
directed by Marcel Carné
written by Jacques Prévert
designed by Alexandre Trauner
photographed by Eugen Schüfftan
Something I watched at the UConn Film Society when I was a student, maybe sixteen or seventeen years old at the time. The first of the Carné/Prévert pictures I got to see. Projected in sixteen millimeter and well worn, but better than not seeing it at all. A movie that makes me laugh uncontrollably, as it should.
Better to be thought of as a killer than as one who has fallen beneath their station in life.
Saturday, March 2, 2024
12 favorite books
Decameron
Journey to the West (西遊記)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Leviathan
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Faust, Eine Tragödie
Penthesilea
Les Chants de Maldoror
Une Saison en Enfer
A Frolic of His Own
Against the Day
Friday, March 1, 2024
Unauthorized DUNE Remake Drawings
Wax crayon & graphite on toned paper; 8.5 x 5.5 inches or 12 x 9 inches, each; September 2023 - March 2024
Related Gaza and Journey to the Center of the Earth drawings included. Of late I’ve been working on a multimedia adaptation of Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s DUNE. Taking in his half-done screenplay for his adaptation of its sequel, Dune Messiah. As it came to light. The next drawings will be from the opening scenes of Lynch’s DUNE 2 showing Duncan Idaho’s resurrection performed by Scytale (never filmed) and of John Lydon as Vladimir Harkonen and maybe his brother. Scytale was the Baron's Doctor, played in Lynch's DUNE by Leonardo Cimino.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Multiple Personalities in INLAND EMPIRE
The three main characters in the picture (we will call them Sue, Billy and Smithy to begin) each have at least two Alter Egos; and the supporting characters all have their doppelgangers too. It all began with a Gypsy folk tale that was transformed into a radio play, though the reverse could also be the case.
To begin we start with the recording.
The original of Devon's character is the Phantom, played by Krzysztof Majchrzak in this initial encounter, though he reappears as himself at the house next door to Smithy's in Inland Empire. The Phantom sells watches and casts spells. Devon makes cappuccinos and acts.