Day: November 20, 2008
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Strangest Dreams: Invasion of the Space Preachers
About 9 years ago I did an interview with an individual who was in Daniel Boyd’s Strangest Dreams: Invasion of the Space Preachers! I was reminded of it because I was going through the Big Sofa site this past weekend, giving it a minor face lift (one that would let people know this was a…
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Kubrick’s Lolita
In which James Mason and Shelley Winters beat Lucy and Dezi into the ground with baseball bats, then hop up and down upon their comedic graves Clare Quilty, the chair That I’d been directly immersed into the chaos of someone’s revealed dream is how I felt the first time I watched Humbert Humbert (James Mason)…
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Masculine, Feminine
(Originally placed online in 2000. Am migrating it over from another section of the website.) Whistling under the credits. MA SCU LIN FEMININ Sound of gunshots. 15 scenes Straight to Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud), the face (or one of them) of the French New Wave Cinema, a role he’d occupied since starring in Truffaut’s “400 Blows”…
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Paths of Glory
(Originally placed online in 2000. Am migrating here from another part of the website.) Unusual for him to do while watching a film, about a quarter of the way through Paths of Glory my husband got up, went in and sat in front of the computer to check the email. I waited a moment then…
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Sunset Boulevard and Cocteau's Orphee
(Note: Originally placed online 2000. Am migrating it over here from another section of the website.) “I put him on the massage table in front of the fire. He always liked fires, and poking at them with a stick.”Norma Desmond–“Sunset Blvd” My son is two and a half years of age. He is standing in…