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Aesthetics Affinities Habits of mind Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

These guys are from England, part MCLVII...

I think people tend to misunderstand exactly what it is that makes the Casey Kasem…

Glenn KennyOctober 24, 2010

Affinities Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Images for a potential study of slow-motion coach rides in late '50s/early '60s European cinema

Ansiket (The Magician), Ingmar Bergman, 1958 La maschera del demonio (The Mask of Satan/Black Sunday),…

Glenn KennyOctober 18, 2010

Aesthetics Affinities Music Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Bing and Bowie

This post is for the wonderful Kim Morgan, recently author of a splendid and aptly-remarked-upon…

Glenn KennySeptember 28, 2010

Affinities Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Tonight, on a very Psychotronic episode of "Murder, She Wrote..."

...guest stars Michael Brandon... ...(also of Dario Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet, 1971)...…

Glenn KennySeptember 27, 2010

Affinities Auteurs Events Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

The tenor of Sax?

Boris Karloff, The Mask of Fu Manchu, Charles Brabin, 1942 Bernard Verley, Love in the…

Glenn KennyAugust 25, 2010

Affinities Amusement Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

A line that made me laugh out loud...

"Amity Shlaes is a credentialed right-wing scribe, best known for The Forgotten Man, her book about…

Glenn KennyAugust 20, 2010

Actors Aesthetics Affinities Auteurs Literary interludes Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Literary interlude, with illustrations and commentary

That thirty days had taught the punk a lesson. It had made him feel badly,…

Glenn KennyAugust 19, 2010

Affinities Miscellany Music Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Well, why NOT start a John Cale appreciation thread?

Cale, in his autobiography What's Welsh For Zen: "My first appearance on an Island recording…

Glenn KennyAugust 12, 2010

Aesthetics Affinities Awesomeness Criticism Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Buñuel and Buster

Buster Keaton in College, 1927 "Much has been said about technique in films like Metropolis…

Glenn KennyAugust 12, 2010

Affinities Auteurs Goodbye heat wave Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Sweat it out

Kathleen Byron, Black Narcissus, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947 Moira Shearer, The Red Shoes,…

Glenn KennyJune 30, 2010

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