Tag Archives: Cinema

What Comes to Pass

Posted on April 19, 2019 by John Biscello

Agony, a skinned aesthetic drawn from the ash and resin of martyrs cast to perish and runes.   (Artwork by Guy Denning, inspired by the 1928 film, The Passion of Joan of Arc)

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David Lynch’s Room to Dream

Posted on September 6, 2018 by John Biscello

Review of the new bio-memoir, Room to Dream, written by David Lynch and Krisitine McKenna. “For the past forty somewhat years, David Lynch has dreamscaped a long day’s journey into night, taking audiences on a hallucinated tour through the underworld … Continue reading →

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Cinemate

Posted on April 24, 2018 by John Biscello

Tinder, how tongues snake flames to debut summer’s flick– Burn Slow While Kissing.

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The Passion of Joan of Arc

Posted on April 17, 2018 by John Biscello

(Review of The Passion of Joan of Arc, the silent film classic, which is celebrating its 90th anniversary.) Celebrating its 90th anniversary, Dreyer’s film remains starkly modern in its composition and complexion, fixed in an otherworldly and hallucinogenic present. Jean Cocteau … Continue reading →

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Veils

Posted on March 22, 2018 by John Biscello

Succubus to self, modeling Salome, dance of the seven deadly veils, thinned, to bare pleasure, and visitation rites.

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Louise to the nth degree

Posted on March 22, 2018 by John Biscello

Remember, love, there’s more of me where I came from– Frames cannot hold us.

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Arson

Posted on March 22, 2018 by John Biscello

Committing arson, five-alarm siren on screen– Louise Brooks, how you burned.    

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Chaplin, Keaton

Posted on March 22, 2018 by John Biscello

Men, who took the fall, to keep the world in stitches– Clowning achievement.   (Film still from Limelight, the only film in which Chaplin and Keaton appeared together).    

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Film Still

Posted on March 8, 2018 by John Biscello

She, the heroine, in the still of her own life– Christ, how far to go?   (Photo by Cindy Sherman)

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Literacy

Posted on March 8, 2018 by John Biscello

Survivors bible, How to Fall and Get Back Up– In slapstick we trust.      

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