Saturday, August 30, 2025

PERHAPS, 1955 IS THE MOST PIVOTAL YEAR OF MY LIFE, IF I CONSIDER THE FILMS THAT I VIEWED THAT YEAR.....



 MORE 'NOT QUITE RANDOM JUXTAPOSION', I RECKON.....   

I, TODAY,  JUST MADE THE 'CONNECTION'  BETWEEN THREE FILMS,  SCREENED IN 1955, THAT HAD MORE CEREBRALLY ABSTRACT MUSIC, INFLUENCED BY ARNOLD SCHOENBERG AND OTHER MODERNIST COMPOSERS WHO HAD ABANDONED THE PREVALING  SYRUPY POP FOR A MORE ATONAL NEGLECT OF SIMPLE HARMONICS,  BY LEONARD ROSENMAN:   "EAST OF EDEN",  "REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE",   AND  "THE COBWEB"....

TWO OF WHICH STARRED JAMES DEAN, WHO..FOR A WHILE, ROOMED WITH ROSENMAN AND WAS HIS STUDENT....MY EARLIEST 'REBEL HERO', WHOM I ASPIRED TO 'BE LIKE'.....  I WAS, OF COURSE, IN THE 6TH GRADE THAT YEAR....BUT LONGED TO SKIP MY UPCOMING ADOLESCENCE'S FOIBLES AND FRUSTRATIONS AND ENTER THE 'ADULT WORLD' OF ART FILMS, ABANDONING THE FRIVILOUSLY SILLY AND STUPID, NAIVE CONSIDERATIONS AND BANAL TASTES OF YOUTHS MY AGE.....ALTHOUGH 'THE COBWEB' WAS REALLY FAR TOO 'ADULT' FOR MY COMPREHENSION AT THAT TIME......IT 'STUCK IN MY MIND'.....AND, YEARS LATER, I GRASPED THE 'REASONS WHY'.....AND HAVE LINKED TO THE FILM IN SOME OF MY OTHER 'BLOGS'......REFERENCING SAMUEL FULLER AS ONE OF MY 'INFLUENCERS......GOODBYE, YELLOW BRICK ROAD....THAT'S NOT GOING TO LEAD ANYWHERE BUT TO WHERE I'D BEEN, ALREADY.......

Thursday, August 28, 2025

AS TEMPTED AS I AM TO WATCH THIS 'TRILOGY' OF FILMS BY BILL DOUGLAS......I'M GONNA 'PASS' ON THIS DEPRESSIVE OPPORTUNITY....

BOTH OF THE FILMS CO-STARS, Hughie Restorick & Stephen Archibald, COMMITED SUICIDE, at 28 and at 35......

https://www.heraldscotland.com/default_content/12760534.scottish-childhood/

https://www.plazaatlanta.com/movie/film-love-the-bill-douglas-trilogy

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose - Jubilee (1977) Derek Jarman




was on TV, recently..........the usual, and likely...inevitable...strings and fabrics of associations arose, some surfacing as tears...one tear, the memory of Ian Charleson....then all the thoughts and feelings, arising from that germinal association.....from a kernal of memory, wherein so much anguish and loss co-habit a knot of discordant repression and fitful recollection....the callousness of Youth seeding the thin-skinned indifferences of Age...And...."Where" are we Now? Welcome to the Callow Collection from the House Of Jejune .......When the Earthly Delights diminish with the Tide of Glamour and Sensation, just toss the relics off the Bridge of Culpable Deniability to the Vast Sargasso Sea of Incomprehensibility, accompanied by sufficient loud music to deafen the ears of Conscience..