A montage of fragments deleted from Inherent Vice

A deleted scene from Inherent Vice

Watch a film about Thomas Pynchon, A Journey into the Mind of P

 

This 2002 documentary by Donatello Dubini and Fosco Dubini is kind of a mess, but it’s a fun mess. Interviews with old friends, like Jules Siegel, superfans and webdudes, and critics (George Plimpton shows up a few times), are interspliced with a lot of stock footage. The Residents’ fantastic pop appropriations from The Third Reich Rock n’ Roll help to stitch the movie together. The film occasionally indulges in a kind of obvious paranoid rambling, and the last section, detailing an attempt to photograph Thomas Pynchon (you remember that silly CNN report?) is not nearly as interesting as Allen Rush or other Pynchonians analyses…. Sort of a for completists only deal.

Orson Welles’ Sketch Book

Raconteur Orson Welles riffs on a number of subjects in these short commentaries, which originally aired on the BBC in 1955. Topics include earthquakes, curses, police work, negative reviews, Martians, magic, etc.

Maypole (The Wicker Man)

Get thee behind me Satan

Rainbow (Fantasia)

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Peter Brook’s (Condensed) Hamlet

Did Wes Anderson interview Robert Evans as a substitute host for Charlie Rose in 2002? You bet your ass he did.

 

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Poster for Stanley Kubrick’s Film The Shining — Tomer Hanuka

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Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair, a short film by Guy Maddin

“I find this disgusting, but I can’t help myself” (eXistenZ)

1000 Years of Popular Music — Richard Thompson (Film)

Watch Hokusai, a short film on the artist’s life by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Žižek riffs on Spike Jonze’s film Her, Lacan, sex, a Taco Bell ad, The Lady Eve, and so on and so on

Film Poster for Terrence Malick’s Badlands — Tomer Hanuka

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Deckard and Pris among the Dolls (Blade Runner)