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Kafka, Renoir and the 99 Percent: Ten Thoughts about Twin Peaks: The Return
“…there would remain the terrified feeling of the return.” — Maurice Blanchot, The Step Not Beyond. 1. Whatever else you say about Twin Peaks: The Return, it seems that to talk about it, if you are in good faith, you must begin by talking about the difficulty of talking about it. 2. Twin Peaks: The Return issues some fairly unique challenges to summary or description. It is difficult to describe what is happening in the story, if there truly is a story, if one of its many threads has some kind of priority over the rest. The original series had, […]
by Larry Gross on Aug 7, 2017 -
ANTHOLOGY HITS 35
New York’s Anthology Film Archives has a fantastic program this weekend to celebrate its 35th anniversary. Three New York luminaries will present three nights of classic arthouse cinema. On Friday director Peter Bogdanovich will introduce a screening of Jean Renoir’s Rules of the Game and Buster Keaton’s Neighbors. On Saturday, poet and rock star Patti Smith will introduce Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar preceded by Kenneth Anger’s Rabbit’s Moon. And on Sunday producer Christine Vachon will screen Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie’s Pull My Daisy as well as Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures. Thanks to Altoids, the screenings are free. Click […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 6, 2005
