"The best French writer is Robbe-Grillet whom we met in Paris..."—VN, letter to Edmund Wilson, January 19, 1960"There is no question, as we have seen, of establishing a theory, a…
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...for reasons inaccessible to my conscious mind (maybe I was spurred on by Millie Perkins telling me in an interview that she was a fan of Jean Cocteau, or maybe,…
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Filling the frame with multiple signifiers, then filling it with a single signifier, then going back to the multiples, leaving the viewer to connect certain dots...this sort of thing is…
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Death to Block: "What the fuck is up?"Today a snazzed-up new special edition of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal comes out in a standard-definition DVD, and even more exciting (for…
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Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro is nuts. I should be quick to point out that I mean that in a good way—I was engaged by it, entranced by it, and finally…
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