Author Archives: Nicholas

Django Rechained and experiments in film crit.

TV spot (16mm) for The Omen (1976) directed by Richard Donner, two years before directing Superman.

Four shots from Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Doppelganger (2003).  

From Roberto Bolaño’s Woes of the True Policeman:

EL PROYECTO TERCIOPELO AZUL (The Blue Velvet Project) @ the Mar del Plata Film Festival in Argentina was launched as a book in Spanish at the 27th Mar del Plata Film Festival on November 20. Here, at the Argentinian newspaper La Nación is … Continue reading →

Yabuike, trying to restore the “rules of the world.” Listening to the heartbeat of the tree, and poisoning the soil.

“The Ones,” a story, coming in November out now at Fiddleblack #6, the serial killer issue.

At the Oxford American.

The first 3 1/2 stanzas of Louise Glück’s poem “Witchgrass,” from her collection The Wild Iris.

A short note about a wonderful poet and artist, Rupert Loydell, who teaches at University College Falmouth and who edits Stride Magazine and whose work has been published by Shearsman Books, among other places. Rupert and I crossed paths–digitally–several years … Continue reading →