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Go stand in the corner......;) La Bonheur does look stunning.

I've not seen the film, but just had a look on YouTube (it's on there, complete). One brief clip of the couple in bed seems to replicate a scene in Godard's Une Femme Mariee (made a year earlier), more or less. I'm interested, though, especially since you mention 'nastiness'. The opening ten...

Yes! Of course there are many ways. If I had to choose between the two you mention and JLG I'd opt for the latter.

Anna K touches my heart...in a wish-I-was-with-her-in-that-Parisian-cafe fashion, but Godard, despite being a 'romantic', touches on everything without necessarily caressing the viewer's heart in the way Hollywood does in its cunning, manipulative fashion. I love the playful way he touches upon...

I'm surprised you're not a bigger fan, Rich - don't know why, but that'll teach me to make assumptions. Me, I've got a lot of love for JLG's 60s works.

Synchronicity! Watched that Monday night - thought it was good, but wouldn't rank it amongst my favourite crime films. What a mug, handing the letter back to be read...

On a Wayne/Lit/cinema theme - try The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout - better than 'True Grit' for me. I wrote a little piece about it here.

They're working on that now. I'll let you know when it's available.

On this very special day, I hereby declare William Burroughs and Tod Dockstader to be, er, married. ;)

:D Yes, love or loath it, repetition is part of his repetoire. That what comes of constantly recycling material.

I don't know that story. I've read most of his novels. As you say, they all have a low-key atmosphere somehow, the doomed Catholicism, world-weariness, duplicity, being damned one way or another, affairs of the heart, the political machinations etc. What astounds me most is his ability to convey...

Reading The Quiet American, yeah, you know it - returning to Greeneland after many years having promised myself to do so at some point. I'm pleased to say that the power and the glory of his writing still remains for me.

re Conrad - Under Western Eyes and The Secret Agent, plus Apocalypse Now! (I think that's the title), otherwise, struggled with the others. Yes, I chatted about Bill on Resonance recently with a fellow Dissenter. It should be available as a podcast soon...don't think I made too much of a fool...

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(Sticks hand up like an enthusiastic kid at school who knows the answer to teacher's question) Me! Me!. As Mr Tea says, he should be a patron saint of this place, but then again, as you say, he's not dubstep (;)). I got the Bill bug from Beat explorations back in the late-70s. His work has...

I watched 'Susperia' a few months back to see what all the fuss was about...didn't think much of it. Good soundtrack though. Watched 'Angel Face' last night - great RKO noir with Jean Simmons as the evil little femme fatale and Bob Mitchum as the sucker - great film.

And this brlliant album of musical metal and science fiction.

Electrosonic - Delia Derbyshire

:D The last trilogy is regarded as being more accessible and is, but only in relation to The Nova Trilogy. I liked Bill when he was being his most inaccessible. The cut-up labyrinth is endlesslessly fascinating to me. He later claimed to have gone too far with that medium, but even the...

Invisible Connections - Vangelis...brilliant piece of work.