Tag Archives: Occult
The Horror of Roman Polanski
One of my favorite movie-going experiences of 2012 was spending four Saturday and Sunday afternoons watching Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film: A 15-hour history of cinema that A.O. Scott of The New York Times called “a semester-long film studies survey course compressed into 15 brisk, sometimes contentious hours…stands as an invigorated compendium of conventional wisdom.” Before [...]
Posted in Cinema, Occult
Tagged cinema, film, horror, Mark Cousins, movie, Occult, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Scene by Scene, terror, The 9th Gate, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Story of Film, The Tenant
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Alchemy, the Occult and Black Swan
Welcome, welcome. Received a strange knock on my afternoon door earlier this week, followed by the sound of something hitting the wood floor in the hallway and hurried footsteps fading down the stairs. Opening the door, a large white envelope stared up at me, the unblinking red postmark stamp as omniscient as the eye of [...]
Posted in Art, Cinema, darren aronofsky, Occult
Tagged Alchemy, Black Swan, darren aronofsky, Occult
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