In New Directors/New Films Ideas Bubble from the Cultural Magma
New Directors/New Films presents a cross-section of ideas and styles bubbling from today’s cultural magma, and elements and themes resonate from film to film. It’s our zeitgeist, baby.
Franz Kafka
Rebecca Schuman and How to Study Kafka in East Berlin Without Really Trying
A review of Rebecca Schuman’s Schadenfreude, a Love Story, including some personal observations and self-identification that connect to a memoir with a really long title and lots of German words
Max Richter: The Blue Notebooks
If The Blue Notebooks was ever in danger of not being considered a classic, let this re-visitation be a way to cover our bases.
What Is Not Erased: Kafka and Lynch and Their Gift of Death
Eraserhead is very much of the same ilk as The Metamorphosis, and could be described to be a dark(er) twin of that novella.
‘The Castle’ Represents the Strange Subgenre of Kafkaesque Comic Books
Franz Kafka's The Castle, as adapted for the gridded page, is fittingly bleak and frustrating, if fascinating and engrossing.