My writing – about music, not film, at the moment – can currently be found at my new blog: reddy brown objects.
Inspector Bellamy
Claude Chabrol's final film, Inspector Bellamy, begins with a dedication and ends with a quote, and in between is one of the French mast...
The Golem (1920)
The Golem is one of the classics of German expressionist horror. Released the same year as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, it's neither as ...
The Night of the Hunted
Jean Rollin's The Night of the Hunted is a typically moody, abstractly haunting film from the idiosyncratic horror auteur. More even tha...
Comedy of Power
Claude Chabrol's Comedy of Power is somewhat ironically titled, and knowingly so, because there's little that's funny about this...
Unconscious London Strata/The Mammals of Victoria
Unconscious London Strata is one of Stan Brakhage's gloriously abstract studies of light and color, with virtually no grounding in concr...
Three Kurt Kren shorts, 1969-1982
[This is part of a sporadic series in which I explore the work of the Austrian DVD label Index DVD. This company has released a great deal o...