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Niluccio: miscellaneous

Fassbinder Pt 2: more suffering, more despair

A while back I did a humble little blog on five of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films, all part of my — ahem — extremely…

Mar 22

Fassbinder Pt 2: more suffering, more despair

Mar 22

Future dance: speed-art collage no1

Feb 12

Future dance: speed-art collage no1

Feb 12

Freezeframe cinema; or, where’s the comfort in watching lots of films?

If a film is a movie (yuk) or a motion-picture (less yuk), then it’s not, by definition, a frozen image. That would be er, photography. But…

Dec 28, 2024

Freezeframe cinema; or, where’s the comfort in watching lots of films?

Dec 28, 2024

I didn’t shoot Andy Warhol, but I did read Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto and laughed out loud…

Yes, that’s right, last week I picked up Valerie Solanas’s slim volume and read a good part of it hurtling down the Victoria Line to sunny…

Jun 8, 2024

I didn’t shoot Andy Warhol, but I did read Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto and laughed out loud…

Jun 8, 2024

Ug mug tug dug: Alexander Trocchi’s Cain’s Book

And I feel just like Jesus’ son …

Apr 11, 2024

Ug mug tug dug: Alexander Trocchi’s Cain’s Book

Apr 11, 2024

Kaurismäki: the extras

As a little epilogue to my recent er, must-read Kaurismäki blog, here are ten extra bits. Stuff I began to notice after watching a…

Jan 7, 2024

Kaurismäki: the extras

Jan 7, 2024

Pushing our buttons; or why Kaurismäki is a hopeless romantic

Yeah man, I guess this is all kind of obvious. But anyway, having just watched/rewatched five of Kaurismäki’s films — Shadows In Paradise…

Dec 28, 2023

Pushing our buttons; or why Kaurismäki is a hopeless romantic

Dec 28, 2023

Hatred from everyone, everyone: five from Fassbinder

Earlier this year I was mentioning how I’d watched Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Love Is Colder Than Death as part of a six-strong grouplet…

Nov 14, 2023

Hatred from everyone, everyone: five from Fassbinder

Nov 14, 2023

The problem of Keiller’s Robinson trilogy

Three full-length films comprised almost entirely of fixed-camera shots, some held for prolonged periods; a total absence of “action” and…

Jun 3, 2023

The problem of Keiller’s Robinson trilogy

Jun 3, 2023

Six from the 60s: surfing the new wave in search of love, hate, jazz and jokes

For reasons too obscure to go into, I’ve spent the last six nights watching a film a night from the sixties. Specifically: six films from…

Jan 21, 2023

Six from the 60s: surfing the new wave in search of love, hate, jazz and jokes

Jan 21, 2023

Confessions of a reluctant film-goer

There’s a scene in Robert Bresson’s film Four Nights Of A Dreamer where one of the film’s two central characters Marthe and her mother go…

Dec 25, 2022

Confessions of a reluctant film-goer

Dec 25, 2022

Reality check: ten years a student, nothing learnt

Earlier this year I raided by old student files — ten years’ worth of bulging lever-arch files packed with photocopies of journal articles…

Aug 15, 2022

Reality check: ten years a student, nothing learnt

Aug 15, 2022

Hey Midlands, scooped yer — the north will rise again

“From the back third eye psyche / The reflected mirror of delirium / Eastender and Victoria’s lager / The induced call, mysterious / Comes…

Dec 30, 2021

Hey Midlands, scooped yer — the north will rise again

Dec 30, 2021

A television in every room: reading Norman Collins and Patrick Hamilton on London

“‘This is where I belong,’ he told himself. ‘I belong to London. And London belongs to me …’.”

Nov 11, 2021

A television in every room: reading Norman Collins and Patrick Hamilton on London

Nov 11, 2021

Bile in Sicily: Verga’s Mastro-don Gesualdo

A couple of years back I blogged about Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s famous account of social upheaval in…

Aug 7, 2021

Bile in Sicily: Verga’s Mastro-don Gesualdo

Aug 7, 2021

Who needs art galleries?

Is it art? Is it, fuck? No, but is it art? Er, maybe …

May 24, 2021

Who needs art galleries?

May 24, 2021

Writing about the Holocaust

Is it right to blog like this about the Holocaust? Maybe not, I don’t know. Anyway, over the weekend I watched three different Holocaust…

Jan 25, 2021

Writing about the Holocaust

Jan 25, 2021

Nothing matters, man: re-watching Cassavetes

About: John Cassavetes. Specifically, watching (re-watching) five of his films during the last five consecutive nights. Yep, this heroic…

Jan 20, 2021

Nothing matters, man: re-watching Cassavetes

Jan 20, 2021

Lockdown libraries

Far more importantly, hundreds of thousands around the world have died in a few months, many of them because of the inertia of governments…

Jun 3, 2020

Lockdown libraries

Jun 3, 2020

Dust to dust: reading The Leopard; or why I hate going to stately homes

There’s a scene near the end of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) where a priest is sent to investigate the…

Aug 26, 2019

Dust to dust: reading The Leopard; or why I hate going to stately homes

Aug 26, 2019

Niluccio: miscellaneous

Niluccio: miscellaneous

Blogs on this and that. Other stuff: MUSIC: http://niluccio.blogspot.com // PHOTOS: www.flickr.com/photos/niluccio/albums // RANTS: https://twitter.com/Niluccio

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