faustus: (culture)
( Mar. 9th, 2008 01:24 am)
XXI: J.M. Kenny, An Evening with Kevin Smith II: Evening Harder (2006) )

I've been a fan of Todd Haynes for ages, although I didn't quite get to him in the days of New Queer Cinema. Poison was a complex, three taled structure: a weird mocumentary about a boy who flew, a 1950s horror about isolating sex and a pastiche of Jean Genet's prison pornutopia. Velvet Goldmine is a post-Wilde reimagining of David Bowie via Citizen Kane - in which an instantly identifiable Croydon is labelled "New York". They don't even flip it to get the traffic on the correct side of the road. Then I went back to <safe> just before Far From Heaven remade Sirk by putting all the subtext back in.

So I really wanted to see his new film:

XXII: Todd Haynes, I'm Not There. (2007) )


Totals: 22 [Cinema: 8; DVD: 13; TV: 1]

I think there's something in the water at the moment.


Let's, for the sake of a label, call him Travis, although that's not his name. He was looking glum the other day, and my first assumption was that he had split up from his girlfriend. Nope, the reason was more life changing than that, and suddenly I'm called upon to give advice I feel distinctly unqualified to give. Walking back home from the Doves with NW, we were chatting about whether we'd given the right advice to Travis, and whether we'd given him too much of a hard time, and I also inadvertantly indicated that come Sunday night I'd be in need of a shoulder. Although I also said that I probably wouldn't be able to talk about it.


This is called foreshadowing )

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