We started the day with Poe, let's end the day the same, with this wild 1928 version of The Fall of the House of Usher, from a live performance in.
This little 3 minute cartoon from 1916 is a harsh look at poverty in the early twentieth century, focusing on a guy so hungry that he tries to get in.
Slade Gorton died today. Despite the Times obit saying he was a moderate, ol'Slade was not a moderate. He was a mean, nasty racist who especially hated Native Americans. In.
In the 1980s, the CIA realized that the only way to get Reagan to pay attention to what they were saying was to make movies for him. So they did..
The few opportunities we have to see Django Reinhardt's hands in action are well worth including in this series, even more so when he is playing with Stéphane Grappelli. Enjoy.
I just finished reading Arturo Fontaine's remarkable novel La Vida Doble, a story of a Chilean underground fighter in the 1980s who gets captured and tortured and then totally turns.
Today is the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. So tonight's film club is what exists on YouTube of the powerful, angry, and wonderful 1952 Hideo Sekigawa film Hiroshima. Paul's.
I'm just about to finish Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station, which is such a magnificent book about the rise of revolutionary ideology, culminating in the Bolshevik Revolution. It's so.
