Niluccio: miscellaneousUg mug tug dug: Alexander Trocchi’s Cain’s BookAnd I feel just like Jesus’ son …4 min read·Apr 11, 2024----
Niluccio: miscellaneousKaurismäki: the extrasAs a little epilogue to my recent er, must-read Kaurismäki blog, here are ten extra bits. Stuff I began to notice after watching a…4 min read·Jan 7, 2024----
Niluccio: miscellaneousThere’s a line in Aki Kaurismäki’s Shadows In Paradise which seems to sum up the life chances of…Yeah man, I guess this is all kind of obvious. But anyway, having just watched/rewatched five of Kaurismäki’s films — Shadows In Paradise…7 min read·Dec 28, 2023----
Niluccio: miscellaneousHatred from everyone, everyone: five from FassbinderEarlier 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…6 min read·Nov 14, 2023----
Niluccio: miscellaneousThe problem of Keiller’s Robinson trilogyThree full-length films comprised almost entirely of fixed-camera shots, some held for prolonged periods; a total absence of “action” and…5 min read·Jun 3, 2023----
Niluccio: miscellaneousSix from the 60s: surfing the new wave in search of love, hate, jazz and jokesFor 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…6 min read·Jan 21, 2023----
Niluccio: miscellaneousConfessions of a reluctant film-goerThere’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…5 min read·Dec 25, 2022----
Niluccio: miscellaneousReality check: ten years a student, nothing learntEarlier this year I raided by old student files — ten years’ worth of bulging lever-arch files packed with photocopies of journal articles…2 min read·Aug 15, 2022----
Niluccio: miscellaneousHey 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…10 min read·Dec 30, 2021----
Niluccio: miscellaneousA 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 …’.”7 min read·Nov 11, 2021----