MOVIE MAN ~

 

M O V I E S

     Simon & Schuster

   2026

JAN SVANKMAJER ~

 

BLUE (film) DEREK JARMAN ~

 

In his final—and most daring—cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. Laying bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching blindness, BLUE is by turns poignant, amusing, poetic and philosophical.

EVERYONE SCREAM ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Atria Books

      2025

CHRIS MARKER, IMMEMORY ~

 

R E A D   M E

       Exact Change 2025

    

     M O R E

         http://gorgomancy.net/

KUROSAWA'S LONG TAKE ~

 

R E A D   M E

     University of Minnesota Press

    2025

ROBBIE ROBERTSON'S INSOMNIA ~

 

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Many of the usual suspects show forth and are treated with

Robbie camaraderie — although Robertson's sweet-talk

doesn't move an inch with Hells Angel Sweet William

(Bill Fritsch) and lover of poet Lenore Kandel and a

somewhat troubadour of two wheels himself, who isn't

taking kindly learning that his poem has been withdrawn

from a tribute reading during the concert film "The Last Waltz,"

whereas both fellow San Fransisco laureates 

Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Michael McClure

remain on board. If you are interested, 

you can dig up on-line the full reading

by Sweet William, and later in Robertson's book

find out just why Fritsch is dragging his leg across

the stage to the microphone. For more of Sweet

William, see the Maysles brothers film "Gimme

Shelter" where the Angel, once again,

captivates the stage.

[BA]

    Crown 2026

    R E A D   M E

ELLEN BURSTYN ~

 

E L L E N   B U R S T Y N

       Riverhead Books, 2006

CLANDESTINE IN CHILE ~

 

R E A D   M E

   NYRB 2010

PRINCE TONIGHT ~

 

Parade - Music from the Motion Picture Under the Cherry Moon ℗ 1986 Warner Records Inc.

FAREWELL ~

 

R O B E R T   D U V A L L

F R E D E R I C K   W I S E M A N

      Tony Cenicola/The New York Times

         Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times

EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS ~

 

WEREWOLF THEREWOLF ~

 

  Kiff VandenHeuvel

WEREWOLF THEREWOLF ~

 

       Kiff VandenHeuvel

WEREWOLF THEREWOLF ~

 

        Kiff VandenHeuvel

WEREWOLF THEREWOLF ~

 

        Kiff VandenHeuvel

WEREWOLF THEREWOLF ~

 

       Kiff VandenHeuvel

BELA TARR ~

Mr. Tarr, right, received the Grand Jury Prize in 2011 at the Berlin International Film Festival from a jury member, Guy Maddin. The award was for Mr. Tarr’s final feature film, “The Turin Horse.”Credit...

Sean Gallup/Getty Images

B E L A    T A R R

 

BRIGITTE BARDOT ~

 

Ms. Bardot in a scene from “La Vérité,” Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Oscar-nominated 1960 crime drama. She called it the only good film she ever made.Credit...Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images

B R I G I T T E   B A R D O T

1934 ~ 2025

STAN BRAKHAGE (stick with it) ~

 

          Window Water Baby Moving

      1959