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Gothic Short Stories (Wordsworth Mystery & Suprnatural) (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)
Posted by Notcot on Feb 9, 2011 in Gothic
Chenda and the Airship Brofman (a Steampunk Novel)
Posted by Notcot on Feb 9, 2011 in Steampunk
When wealth and charm fail… and airship and the gods prevail.
Chenda Frost lived as a spectator in her own life until the murder of her recluse war hero husband. Caught in a mystery about her destiny, she boards an airship with Geologist Candice Mortimer for an adventure in the air, across a desert, through a mountain and under the sea. Along the way, she loses everything she’s ever known, but gains true friendship and a formidable gift from the gods. A ripping good yarn!
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Blow Up [DVD] [1966]
Posted by Notcot on Jan 3, 2011 in Cult Film
It may not stand up as an art-house film (the opening and closing shots of a mime playing tennis belong in the Pretentious Metaphor Hall of Fame), but this head scratcher is an absorbing travelogue of swinging London circa 1967, courtesy of auteur tourist Michelangelo Antonioni. Blow Up is also a meticulous, paranoid murder mystery that has left its fingerprints on dozens of later films, from Coppola’s The Conversation to the recent cult item The Usual Suspects. The efforts of a fashion photographer (David Hemmings) to analyse a photo snapped off-the-cuff in a public park, which may have recorded a crime in progress, resonated at the time with conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. From here it looks like an anticipation of up-to-the-minute anxieties about the filtering of perception through metastasising media. The movie marked the film debut of Vanessa Redgrave, and in the justly celebrated purple-paper scene, expat chanteuse-to-be Jane Birkin. –David Chute
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The Edgar Allan Poe Collection, Vol. 1: Annabel Lee and Other Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Posted by Notcot on May 28, 2010 in Cult Film
Screen Sirens Scream!: Interviews with 20 Actresses from Science Fiction, Horror, Film Noir and Mystery Movies, 1930’s to 1960’s
Posted by Notcot on Apr 9, 2010 in Noir
Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD: A Guide to the Best in Cinema Thrills
Posted by Notcot on Apr 1, 2010 in Noir
