I have long wanted an ancestral portrait painted in a German Expressionist style hanging in my entry when I greet weary travelers seeking shelter from a ferocious storm. They would evince surprise at the unnerving resemblance between that sinister visage and my own features or perhaps those of […]
Friend of the Gutter and Patricia Highsmith scholar Kate Laity has some thoughts about the new Netflix adaptation of Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, and on Ripley himself. “I had equal parts of anticipation and dread for this new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith‘s The Talented Mr Ripley especially […]
This year for Switcheroo Month I thought I would doubly switch things up by writing about something reputable–the films of Alfred Hitchcock–and something I would not usually write about–the films of Alfred Hitchock. Hitchcock is a filmmaker I struggle with. I recognize the quality of his work. I […]
Our friends at the Projection Booth watch Dune 2 (2024)! “On this special Projection Booth / Kulturecast cross-over, Mike talks with Chris Stachiw about Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two (2024) in which we re-join the continuing struggles of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) on the desert planet Arrakis (also […]
At Neon Harbor, friend of the Gutter Ed Glaser has posted a copy of Drakula Istanbul’da / Dracula In Istanbul (1953) with new high quality English subtitles! “With all-new English subtitles written by Ed Glaser. Turkey’s bloodthirsty, hereditary enemy invades Istanbul in this film adaptation of Ali Rıza […]
Bill Moyers interviews Ursula K. LeGuin about writing, her process, and the 1980 PBS adaptation of her novel, The Lathe Of Heaven (1971). It’s really good. Watch here.
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