The meaning of life
“Based on the short stories of Etgar Keret, and adapted for the screen by Etgar Keret and director Tatia Rosenthal, $9.99 is a stop motion animated feature which offers slightly less than $10 worth about the meaning of life…” More at design: related (via HTML GIANT)
Dennis Says Relax
“Critics declaring God Jr. a more mature work because it excluded explicit sex and violence and the world perspective of the young annoyed me, but it didn’t surprise me. I’ve long realized that a general puritanism in the US and a fear of difficult subject matter and a deep disrespect for the minds and ideas and emotions of teenagers and so on were going to be a problem my work would always face. The generally held idea that the kinds of things I write about aren’t ‘serious’ or aren’t what a truly serious literary work would concentrate on is just an insurmountable and boring enemy that I accepted would be there for all eternity a long time ago. It interests me to try to sneak through and around that prejudice. That’s the only way I can think about it.”
Alan Kelly interviews Dennis Cooper.
3:AM Reloaded
What you (may have) missed on 3:AM recently: Fiction: ‘President’s Day Weekend’ by Susan Buttenwieser & ‘Better Things’ by Andrea Kneeland Poetry: ‘Four Poems’ from Carlos Barbarito Reviewed: Max Dunbar on Irvine Welsh’s Reheated Cabbage, Guy Delisle’s Burma Chronicles & Tom Reynolds’ More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea Music: Cathi Unsworth on […]
The Trope of ‘Revenge’ in J-cinema
Female Prisoner # 701: Scorpion boasts the production values of a Japanese studio film, but like the work of Seijun Suzuki (Tokyo Drifter, Branded To Kill etc.) it manages to transcend the formulaic limitations of production-line cinema. Nonetheless, the essential characteristics of Matsu the Scorpion will be familiar to anyone who has seen more than one ‘revenge’ film. There is no need for Matsu to exist as a fully formed ‘character’ because her motivation and superhuman strength are a product of her burning desire for revenge.
Stewart Home on Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion and the trope of ‘revenge’.
Möbius
This Wednesday (from 6.30pm) at Rough Trade East off Brick Lane sees the launch of the Faber/Domino new music journal, Loops. The launch itself features James Yorkston live, Jon Hopkins on decks and a reading by Simon Armitage. As per the drill at RT East, if you want in then you need to show up […]