David Cronenberg Meets Jonathan Lethem. I Weep With Delight

I’m going through different stages of excitement after reading this: In recent years, he’s successfully moved into more mainstream, if indubitably classy, fare but David Cronenberg’s latest project looks like a return to the peculiar world of The Fly or Crash. The Canadian filmmaker is planning a big-screen adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s 1997 novel As She Climbed Across the Table, the tale of a man who loses the love of his life to a shapeless void. According to the Pajiba […]

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Spotting Hitchcock

Every time I watch a Hitchcock film I’m on edge anticipating the moment where the director will show up for a brief second.  Thanks to whoever made this video, I now know all the spots to look for.

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Stanley Kubrick: Chess Hustler

Check  out Jeremy Bernstein’s piece at the New York Review of Books blog:  “Playing Chess With Kubrick”. Kubrick explained that early in his career he too played chess for money in the park and that Duval was so weak that it was hardly worth playing him. I said that we should play some time and then left the apartment. I was quite sure that we would never play. I was wrong.

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