Philip Ridley
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Hidden Horror: Philip Ridley’s The Reflecting Skin
The following essay appears in the new horror-film anthology, Hidden Horror: A Celebration of 101 Underrated and Overlooked Fright Flicks. Click here for an interview with the book’s editor, Dr. AC as well as for links to four other essays published at Filmmaker. “It’s all so horrible, isn’t it? The nightmare of childhood. And it only gets worse.” The prairie is a paradox: a place of bounty and scarcity, virility and decay, the sublime and the surreal. You can see this in the juxtaposition of lush landscape paintings depicting thick wheat fields, warm sunsets and quaint farmhouses, with black-and-white photos […]
by Dave Alexander on Jan 16, 2014 -
WHAT’S IN MY INSTAPAPER (SUNDAY MORNING LINKS)
Here are articles of interest I’ve bookmarked over the last few days in my Instapaper. * In the Edmonton Journal, Atom Egoyan discusses the rise and what he sees as the slow decline of independent production, linking it to not only external forces (technology, economic cycles) but also the fusion of independent production with a particularly American urge for self-expression. Egoyan speaks in a matter-of-fact tone. Able to transcend the pettier concerns of a frequently petty industry, thanks to a sophisticated world view, trenchant sense of humour and healthy dose of Canadian humility, Egoyan sees the shifting business model as […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 18, 2010
