Hudson, David. "Eli Wallach, 1915 – 2014: 'I’ve played more bandits, thieves, warlords, molesters and mafioso that you could shake a stick at.'” Keyframe (June 25, 2014)
Kuersten, Erich. "Quilty Makes This World: 12 Tricksters (CinemArchetype #1)." Acidemic (January 12, 2012)
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book is a great homage to and update of the classic weird tales of old, as we would expect from the co-editor of the massive, essential collection of the best stories in The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories and various "new weird" short story collections. It is the first part of a trilogy and other comments here on Goodreads already lay out the basics of the plot, but with the great "weird" stories it is not really the plot that stands out, it is instead, the eerie atmosphere that sets the reader off-kilter and leads to strange dreams and questions about their own nature-or-reality (Freud's "uncanny"). Oftentimes the effect of this first novel is like a big hit off a mind-altering substance (e.g. opium) and the resulting dreamlike state. I'm looking forward to see where this goes (I got this first one, because I had picked up the second novel Authority in a library and figured out I needed to search out Annhilation first).
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Hamilton-Smith, David. "Life's Incidental Character: The Films Of Agnès Varda." The Quietus (June 6, 2014)
Asch, Mark. "Careful and House by the River : On Guy Maddin and Fritz Lang’s craftsmanship in the creation of fraught psychological states. Keyframe (January 4, 2014)
Quintin. "Road to Nowhere." Cinema Scope #46 (Spring 2011)
"Recipes." Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
Martin Scorsese - The Art of Silence from Tony Zhou on Vimeo.
Dialogic Cinephilia: Mean Streets (USA: Martin Scorsese, 1973)
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