The Great Stillness of Ingmar Bergman’s Camera
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog My friend was sick last week, so I sewed him a handkerchief while I watched Summer with Monika by Ingmar Bergman. […]
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Shockumentaries: What’s The Deal With Extreme Cinema?
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog There is a video from Cannes in 2002 of attendees’ reactions from the premiere of Gaspar Noe’s feature Irreversible. It’s a […]
The Death of The Fantasy Film
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog Thatcherism, Reaganomics, Vietnam. David Bowie, Lou Reed, Spandau Ballet. Wall Street Bankers, The Christian Right, The Cold War. Labyrinth, The Never […]
The Color Blue
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog The phantom colour blue exists. In the deep reaches of the sky and upon the surface of the sea. True blue pigment […]
Kitsch
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog It is not a superficial thing to say: there is such a thing as an aesthetic revolt. There is always the pressure to be […]
Sex, Drugs, and Robert Crumb
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog We get off the tube at Warren Street, and make our way down and around the backroads of Oxford Street, whose […]
Wilhelm Reich and U.S. Book Burning
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Wilhelm Reich marked U.S. history as being the target of the only federally sanctioned book-burning. Six tonnes of it in the mid-1950s. […]
New Sincerity
New Sincerity by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog There is much I do not comprehend. There is much I feel and that much is enough for me, that […]
Religio Artificio
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Religion subsists. It is worth dwelling on: the motions faith slaloms to survive; the impotence of knowledge to persuade otherwise, to penetrate […]
A Year In Books
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog I read many books when I was little. I got books for Christmas and for my birthday. I read children’s books […]
Reflections On Classical Music
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Classical music often enjoys a status of being complex, dignified, and asides from the popular excerpts of Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and Chopin […]
Growing Older: On Ageing Actresses And Beautiful Women
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog Growing old is constantly on my mind because I am an actress and because I am an actress there are roles, […]