Where Vol. 1 editors share what they’re into this week
John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe
That Time Joan Didion Reviewed Woody Allen
Posted by Jason Diamond My happy spot of the day is this 1979 Joan Didion dissection of Woody Allen’s late 70s output from The New York Review of Books.
Cinematic: Adapted Borges & Fall Soundtracking
Posted by Tobias Carroll One: Warren Ellis brings news that Alex Cox’s adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges’s “Death and the Compass” is now streaming online. It can be seen here at Daily Motion, via BFI Films. Cox’s thoughts on the film can be read here. Two: At Big Other, AD Jameson on the 1987 film Hail the New Puritan, which looks fascinating: Hail the New Puritan (1987) is a feature-length film directed by Charles Atlas. The choreography is by a […]
Blane from “Pretty in Pink” knows how to Travel
Posted by Jason Diamond I know he probably hates to be thought of as “Blane from Pretty in Pink,” “guy in the Less Than Zero film adaptation” or “tolerable dude in Weekend at Bernie’s,” but until 30 seconds ago that’s what I always thought of when I thought about Andrew McCarthy. So it was something of a surprise to learn McCarthy is a travel writer that is good enough to win Travel Writer of the Year by the Society of […]
Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 Made Me Question Myself
Posted by Jason Diamond I Sat down and watched Truffaut’s film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 last night. It made me realize that I’m a fucking terrible, shallow person who values material possessions far too much.
Happy Stephen Elliott Day
It’s a good day to be Stephen Elliott. According to the Observer, Perez Hilton (!?), and Elliott’s Twitter, James Franco has optioned The Adderall Diaries. Not only that, but yesterday the book came out in paperback.
On Paranoid Television: “Rubicon”
Posted by Tobias Carroll I’ve been watching — and quite enjoying — Rubicon, the longform conspiracy thriller currently airing on AMC. The fine critics Alan Sepinwall and Maureen Ryan have each written good summaries of why this is something you should be watching. For me, much of what I like about the show are the minor details: the framed photo of, I believe, Fugazi that hangs in the apartment of protagonist Will; the cover to the first issue of Grant […]