The Face Knife

Armond White goes ballistic on Gary Indiana’s Pickpocket essay in the upcoming Criterion disk. Although I haven’t read the essay and I have no way of knowing if White misrepresents Indiana, the latter’s essay sounds awful indeed.

New Yorkers, please go see Pickpocket at Film Forum this week. I’m looking forward to Mouchette, which I haven’t seen.

I’ll write more about White’s take on Bresson anon - it’s close to my own.

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For those of you with TCM, please set the recording device of your choice for 2am this evening (or, rather, Saturday morning) for The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Fritz Lang’s sort of sequel to both Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler and M and my favorite of those 3 films.

Next week may bring an even bigger treat to TCM subscribers, as (at 2am, again) they are running Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr, a great movie available, only, as far as I know, in an awful DVD package. The DVD features the worst subtitles in the world, which appear onscreen in a black box, in a white typeface close to Fraktur.