#The Appointment

[babehog]

Grrr got hit with a missed appointment fee for an appointment I literally had no chance to cancel. Sucks ass

[anhed-nia]

I saw this movie weeks ago and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it, even though I've also had trouble figuring out what to say about it. It's hard to even pin down the genre; it's sort of a horror movie, or maybe it's more of a psychodrama with magic realist elements. The opening and climax are absolutely stunning, real feats of spectacle and shocking in their content, while the middle is this strange, elliptical blend of dramaturgy and dream sequence. A business trip forces Edward Woodward to miss his precocious teenage daughter Samantha Weysom's violin recital, which insult fills their household with an unbearable tension. Only the cynical matriarch Jane Merrow perceives the neurotic underpinnings of this situation, as Woodward is too sure of himself and too far under the spell of his eccentric child to grasp the unseemly thing that is happening between them. The fact that it is writer-director Lindsay Vickers' only feature is incredible. To say more about it would spoil how surprising it is, and in any case I'm still chewing on it. Maybe I'll try to say something less ponderous next Blogtober, but for now I can tell you that there's a BFI blu ray of it, so you don't have to hunt down a rare and expensive VHS tape anymore. Thanks to @still-single for turning me onto this one!

Here's a little more info for the curious:

[cor-ardens-archive]

[marypickfords]

The Appointment (Lindsey C. Vickers, 1981)

[winged-cries]

The Appointment, dir. Lindsey Vicker | Demon Lover, Dorothy Quick

[1day1movie]

The Appointment (1982) Lindsey C. Vickers.

[postcard-from-the-past]

"The Appointment"

Russian vintage postcard, illustrated by the Art Nouveau artist S. Solomko

[quillyfied]

One thing that Firefox can’t do is allow me to access my telehealth therapy appointments. Three different platforms now have rejected my use of Firefox. I use Safari instead bc that’s what works and at least it isn’t chrome, but for folks who rightfully use Firefox, be aware that many, if not all, telehealth platforms will not work on Firefox (something about the encryption/security not being up to their standard, I believe; if there are hacks that Firefox gurus know to bypass this, please share with the class?).

[rozmorris]

When to write poetry, when to write prose? Interview with poet and fictioneer Mike Maggio

What makes a poem a poem? How is it a different beast from richly written literary fiction? In prose, it seems, we can do most of what a poem can do, beyond just telling a story. Creative expression, profound thoughts, metaphors. We can even control how the text falls in the reader’s mind through our use of cadence and line breaks. What’s the distinguishing difference with a poem? Mike Maggio is…

[getsilly]

ok captain annoying

[thoodleoo]

grieving as an adult is so funny it's like. im sobbing my eyes out i'm laughing like a maniac im pondering the mortality of everything around me. ok glad thats out of my system because i have a dentist appointment in an hour

[pillsopa]

💭hey Adam biker… heyyy.

(they don’t know this is also about bella swan Adam)

[crowlixcx]

I’ll just go to head office and explain it all.

[cor-ardens-archive]

[marypickfords]

The Appointment (Lindsey C. Vickers, 1981)

[starrysharks]