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How to Watch Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970)

Eat a very large carb-laden meal.

Waddle to the nearest bed and pile all available duvets and blankets onto your horizontal body. 

Watch Wanda. 

Under the weight of your most recent meal, the blankets and Wanda’s fate, become unbearably sad. 

You have now successfully watched Loden’s Wanda. 

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My review of Anne T. Donahue’s book. 

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Confronting general human oddities. Canadian literati icon and Governor General award winner Marian Engel gets a mention. Read my latest for Vice. 

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Wrapped up a long week by watching Michael Haneke’s Amour alone in my bedroom and lemme tell ya, big mistake! 

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Madiha Yousri in Immortal Song (1952) dir. Henry Barakat

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Romy Schneider, 1965. 

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Read my latest for The Hairpin

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On Indulgence for Sophomore Magazine. Styled and directed by Sophie Margolian, makeup and photography by Jessica Daneluk.

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Nom de Royale

Juana the Mad

Phillip the Handsome 

Bloody Mary (Mary I)

(more to come)

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Friendship Blackmail Goals

Martin Scorsese threatened to withdraw his film “Italian-American” from the 1974 New York Film Festival roster unless they premier his friend John Cassavetes film “Woman Under the Influence” as well.

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Persona (1966) by Ingmar Bergman 

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“As I researched sleep, I found that we sleep in intervals. The REM intervals loop several times a night. Each loop is about 90 minutes long. It is the same running time as an average feature film. So maybe the running time of films fulfills our subconscious needs? Therefore, entering a movie theatre is not unlike entering a dream. Films hypnotise us and take us to new worlds. Sleeping and films are like twin realities.” — Apichatpong Weerasethakul, from a behind-the-scenes featurette on Cemetery of Splendour (2015)

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Three things I recently learned that have unsettled me

1. The last time the guillotine was used in France was the same year that Star Wars was released. 

2. Slash, Mads Mikkelsen and Keanu Reeves are all the same age.

3. Kifli is a crescent shaped roll first baked by Hungarians to commemorate the Turks’ defeat in Vienna, and later introduced by Marie Antoinette in Paris, where they became known as CROISSANTS.