Comments on: Fever Dream Double-Features

By: Berlin Psychos Go America « SHADOWPLAY

Berlin Psychos Go America « SHADOWPLAY — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:45:42 +0000

[...] in the mighty footsteps of Christoph Hubert, whose Fever Dream pairings were published hereabouts recently, I present for your delectation and [...]

By: dcairns

dcairns — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:39:17 +0000

Beautiful!
Expect more soon.

By: Darryl McCarthy

Darryl McCarthy — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:09:53 +0000

This theme has been nagging away at my mind. I keep coming back to the Swinging London froth of Smashing Time, spinning away from the fast-revolving party at the top of the Post Office Tower into the druggy persona swapping in Performance on the other side of town. Good trip, bad trip. And on the other side of the world, when Anjelica Huston drives out into the night-time lights of LA at the end of The Grifters, does she cruise past Steve Martin hugging a roadsign.? Worse still could Anjelica’s lamented lost love, revealed at the climax of The Dead, in fact have been that toothy Leprachaun from Finian’s Rainbow? Time to stop thinking about it all, it is far too unsettling.

By: dcairns

dcairns — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:36:10 +0000

I guess a few of them do something similar. The double-heroine of Obscure Object is maybe the most schizoid, and since she seems to make a fetish of inaccessibility, she has found a novel way to combine the earthy and unattainable.

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:08:03 +0000

Catherine Deneuve splits the difference in Belle de Jour managing to be glacial and earthy at the same time.

By: dcairns

dcairns — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:57:37 +0000

I’d recommend you follow the link to the Ghost Blog and subscribe. You can always cancel if you don’t want to receive more issues, but you might like it. They won’t hound you or try to sell you things, it’s not a commercial concern, really.

Bunuel’s leading women divide up into the glacial and the earthy — I tend to respond more to the dirty ones.

By: Chris B

Chris B — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:34:04 +0000

Don’t suppose you have a .pdf of The New-York Ghost’s latest edition?

Sylvia Pinal, heh, in one of my Bunuel classes - after raising my hand to the question: Do you find Sylvia Pinal attractive? - I had the strange disciplinary task of semantic obfuscation, turning adolescent perversions (were I hypothetically left in a room with her) into poetic observations… Well, at least the class discussions were varied!

By: dcairns

dcairns — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:03:45 +0000

Ah, but I’m crazy about Sylvia Pinal. And she can be fairly tough herself.

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:41:19 +0000

What Bunuel’s Brigadoon lacks, of course, is Elaine Stewart — my favorite movie tough-guy.