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A NIGHTMARE WAKES

February 4, 2021 By Leave a Comment

A NIGHTMARE WAKES

The most potent image in A NIGHTMARE WAKES, a film that is rife with them, is the juxtaposition of blood and ink as Mary Shelley (Alix Wilton Regan) struggles to produce her novel, Frankenstein or A New Prometheus, putatively the beginning of the science fiction genre (pace fans of Cyrano de Bergerac’s A Trip to… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Feminism, Frankenstein, illusion, Mary Shelly, sanity, symbolism, writing

THE LAST WORD — Mark Pellington Interview

March 2, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE LAST WORD — Mark Pellington Interview

Mark Pellington is firmly in touch with his feminine side. It was one of the first thing he talked about when I interviewed him on February 27, 2017. We went on riff on the psychology of the characters in THE LAST WORD, muse on making an entertaining film with substance, and the legacy of the… Read More »

Tagged With: Amanda Seyfried, at-risk child, catharsis, dementia, Feminism, grief, Jenny Holzer, legacy, MTV, nostalgia, Obituary, power of words, Shirley MacLaine, United States of Poetry, William Burroughs

THE HOURS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE HOURS begins with a suicide, a famous one at that. Virginia Woolf with a fierce deliberateness puts a heavy stone in her pocket and walks into a river. We see her head duck silently into the water and then her body floating delicately away, pulled by the current with a gentle urgency. By the… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, book to film, Feminism, LGBT, literature, suicide, Virginia Woolf

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