A gift from a friend that I finally got to read. Beautiful reproductions of mostly French movie posters with fun histories and short reviews. And I thought I had seen a lot of these…
I’ve missed most of Hal Hartley’s work, but am enjoying a kind of catch-up through Criterion Channel’s current retrospective. I had only seen Henry Fool previously and I’ll have to say that so far it’s still my favorite.
Also on the Criterion Channel has been a retrospective of the Corman-Poe Cycle, movies that I grew up watching and, for the most part, love. I decided to also revisit the unofficial companion The Oblong Box, which features Price, a title from Poe (and little else relating to his story), but a director other than Corman. For me, it gets better as the movie goes on, but it doesn’t have neither the gothic qualities nor the camp of the original cycle.
Metal from India! This record is a lot of fun and has some killer ballads–something I don’t always get to say about these retro acts.
Stephen McClurg 