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Turn of the wheel
Fortunas turns yet again, but upward this time: finally that promotion – after three applications in a row, and only about a year later than deserved, according to my figuring. (In Britain, where money and business control have taken over academe, that isn’t bad – administrators here love to deny promotions in order to save…
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Making oneself crazy
… or should that be: making one’s self crazy?… In the interstices of watching these films, and scanning Joyce’s thesis so I can report on it (the airplane and hotel for her defense in Paris are already organized – which reminds me: I also need to buy a flight to Washington to attend my eldest…
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Les nuits fauves
I’ll admit it: Savage Nights (Les nuits fauves), Cyril Collard’s famous 1992 film about being bisexual, HIV+, and careless – by which I mean: really fucking careless: having sex with someone without telling them – is at least as exasperating as it is impressive. Does that make me a fuddy-duddy?… Lots of drama about rebellion…
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Jarman
In the midst of watching all these AIDS films, a left turn, sort of: before sitting through Derek Jarman’s Blue (I’ve never actually seen it with the blue screen throughout – which may hardly be necessary – but perhaps it’s a good idea to do it), I thought I would see something that didn’t require…
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Spring
It is very late, or very early, depending on your preference – just after six a.m. Sleep is for some reason impossible, I don’t know why. The other day an IKEA catalogue came in the mail, with ‘SPRING’ on the cover. I laughed, hollowly – all right, I didn’t do that, I don’t engage in…
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Framing the past
Having finished watching Parting Glances, I can see – yes, it is a good movie; but I don’t think I missed so much, walking out on it twenty-odd years ago. An interesting and touching slice of a certain kind of life, and the party scene is indeed great fun; of course from my current point…
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Paul Attinello 