“The Cinematic Resonances of Portrait of a Lady on Fire“
At Film School Rejects, Meg Shields considers the “cinematic resonances” of Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019).
“‘The Little Drummer Girl’: inside the television series’ colourful retro sets”
Spaces has images of sets from Park Chan-wook’s BBC series, The Little Drummer Girl and an interview with set designer Maria Djurkovic. (Thanks, Keith)
The Elect Stories
Chapter one of The Elect Stories is available for about $1 on Amazon. The book is Enlightenment Era inflected fantasy written by friend of the Gutter John Crye and you can read more about the process of writing it here. (Full disclosure, the Gutter’s own Carol was a […]
“The Cat Wall-Hanging”
Friend of the Gutter Greta considers Bollywood’s house with cat wall-hangings at Memsaab Story. I” have now seen this particular place in four different films spanning nine years. Originally I thought it was a set, but it now seems difficult to believe that a set would remain so […]
“Twilight of the American Antihero”
At Vox, Emily Van Der Werff writes about antihero dramas, “politically incorrect” comedy and the uneasy stories we live in, tell ourselves and watch. “Much was made in the 1980s of the way that Ronald Reagan styled himself as a cowboy or a war hero, borrowing the tropes […]
Karate!
When I last investigated this film in the early 2010s, it wasn’t on youtube, and I was distraught: when you hear that there is such a thing as a 1983 disco karate movie, you need to see it right now and then immediately share it with an appreciative […]
The Cultural Gutter 