Jacques Rivette’s Love on the Ground begins with a play performed in a small Paris apartment and ends with a more elaborate performance in a sprawling manse. It’s more or less the same play. The same one that’s in so many Rivette films. An endless rehearsal, elaboration, and collapse of a series of set pieces,Continue reading “Love on the Ground”
Monthly Archives: April 2025
tindersticks
Do you have music that’s so tied to a person or a place that anytime it comes on everything comes flooding back in? I don’t know when I first heard tindersticks, sometime in the late-90s most likely. They were a favorite of people I got to know after moving back to Chicago in 1997 andContinue reading “tindersticks”
Disaster is My Muse
One of my fondest art-school memories is Art Spiegelman telling the entire history of comics in an hour from within a cloud of cigarette smoke in the old auditorium on Columbus Drive. I didn’t grow up with comics nor ever made any, but some of the best artists of our time have dedicated themselves toContinue reading “Disaster is My Muse”