The Nightshirt Sightings, Portents, Forebodings, Suspicions

Archive for March, 2007

Kubrick, Lynch, the Bardo

Sunday, 4 March, 2007

David Lynch seems like someone who gets possessed by a question and won’t let up until he tires of the question (not, that is, until he answers it—the questions he asks aren’t answerable, probably). The question in his recent films, at least, seems to be: What is Woman made of? Or maybe it is some […]

The black monolith

Saturday, 3 March, 2007

Well, there are many kinds of films. Most of them, nowadays, don’t demand much thinking. That makes me very, very upset. It makes me upset that they think the audiences have grown unused to thinking and that they only want things spelled out for them, in a platter. That’s bullshit, and a big one. People […]