Wilson by Daniel Clowes
Tags/ Posted by Chris Al-AswadMy parents are still here due to the snow That's falling fatly on us in Cheyennecontinue reading this poem
Wilson is published as a large hardback, A4 size, with a glossy cover, like a children’s annual. Its ‘hero’ peers out at us – uncertainly? beseechingly? – looking faintly ridiculous with his too-large head.
Breathless by Jean Luc Godard (1960 classic)
Tags/ Posted by Luke GrundyWe spill ourselves all over ourselves—our excess lightcontinue reading this poem
Long held up as the benchmark for coolness on film, Jean Luc Godard’s 1960 film À Bout de Souffle (or simply Breathless to give it its English title) was something I had heard much talk of, but had never seen. Godard is one of the founding members of the nouvelle vague (French New Wave) style which was pioneered in France in the 1950s and ’60s.
A Review of Peter Davis’s Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!
Tags/ Posted by Mark KerstetterIn a bubble bath Of Kandinsky shapes A universe of rings Circling in an orbitcontinue reading this poem
When I received my copy of Peter Davis’s new book Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! I sat and read it through, laughing the whole way. Then I shared some of the poems with my wife, and the next day told others about it. That doesn’t happen every day.
Terry Gilliam’s 1985 Classic “Brazil”
Tags/ Posted by Luke GrundyHave you noticed how when you see two people talking anywhere in the world, one is almost always smiling?continue reading this poem
Terry Gilliam has a reputation in the world of moviemaking as, well, a bit of a lunatic. His films are utterly unique, bereft of the Hollywood norms and usually awash with mad ideas. The excellent 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are wonderful pieces of cinema, showing that Gilliam, for all his idiosyncrasies, can make a cracking good film.
