Look Both Ways first published by musicOMH, 26 Aug 2006 Look Both Ways is a polygeneric, multi-media ensemble piece whose subject is no less than life itself in all its joys and sorrows, as bizarre chances, unexpected causalities, and the mysterious workings of the human heart are all shown interacting in a skillfully embroidered web…
The Man Who Laughs first published by Little White Lies, as entry 110 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column When popular stage clown Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt), also known by his stage name ‘the man who laughs’, closes the cabinet housing his makeup mirror, we see clearly on either panel door a depiction of the twin masks…
New Year’s Eve is the time to redress past regrets and to make future resolutions; the time when traditions are preserved, even as change is embraced; the time when, Janus-like, we look backwards and forwards simultaneously; the time when it’s out with the old and in with the new. It is also when the events…