Seven years ago, after rewatching La Belle Noiseuse, I returned to figure-drawing class after a twenty-five-year break. I had a really good time and swore I’d incorporate it into the weekly routine going forward. I only lasted a couple months. I don’t know why I stopped but ever since then I’ve promised myself I’d return.Continue reading “Back to Platform”
Monthly Archives: April 2025
Love on the Ground
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”
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”