Damn Dulac

I have an appreciation of Germaine Dulac up at Kinoscope, here. Hope you’ll read, comment, repost. Thanks to Tanner Tafelski for the gig and the excellent editing.

 

Talk and Slash

For the first time I’m in the esteemed Bright Lights Film Journal, with a piece co-authored by genius Daniel Riccuito. Subject: giallii!

Daniel is, believe it or not, the easiest and most agreeable of collaborators — typically he just gets in touch and says “I need a paragraph to get me from here to here.” I don’t usually read the bits I’m supposed to join up. This time, I seem to have wound up doing at least half the piece, but Daniel had to do a lot of hammering to get it coherent. The result — a lucid critical analysis of the form animated by the same fervid enthusiasm as the films themselves, and cutting deeper, I believe, than most accounts of the psychological impulses at play.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Espionage — Italian style! Over at the Notebook in this fortnight’s Forgotten (a week late but who’s counting?)