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Pentimento runs under 90 minutes and spends every one of them making you uncomfortable. A Dutch exploitation curio from 1979 that uses its art-historical premise, hidden images beneath the surface, to do something genuinely unsettling with institutional dread and bodily autonomy
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Tríptico elemental de España: Fuego en Castilla (1960) dir. José Val del Omar
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Klages won Wotan’s wisdom in “the EYE is to the highest degree an organ of contemplation” as a Teuton teen Nietzsche in dithyramb doth “Thou unknown—God” is “Thou mocking eye that stares at me from the dark!”—Moby Dicked in oneiric Odinic ocular oneness of Wild Hunt + Wild Heart!
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MAD made such a major, albeit swift, impression on me like 20 years ago that I didn’t even realize it was one of Bowden’s pre-Rightist texts until after reading—there’s an air of audacious ambiguity Not seen In his later books as a philosophical novel made in titular triumph!
With his perversely platonic—and mightily metapolitical Nietzsche vs St. Thomas of Aquinas—APOCALYPSE TV, Jonathan Bowden most impressed me with, maybe somewhat ironically, his early pre-Right-Wing novels [posthumously published via Nine-Banded Books]; an interesting case study!
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Tonight's cinematic quest:
Jodorowsky's 𝘌𝘭 𝘛𝘰𝘱𝘰 (1970)
Feeling like a mole with my head poking up from under the blankets to undertake this rewatch.
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“People go to bed without reflecting that perhaps, in the first sleep, they may get up again as Somnambulists, and crawl over the tops of roofs and the like.”
Jean Paul, The Invisible Lodge
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EYES WIDE SHUT could have been great[er] sans stunt-married-celeb-casting and by staying true to Schnitzler [a la Ophuls]. Kubrick’s early producer [turned director] James B. Harris’ SOME CALL IT LOVING arguably outdoes EWS [and even LOLITA] in sleepwalking Schnitzlerian sleaze.
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