DC’s is on summer vacation until the 3rd week of July. Until then, why not use this post to investigate the blog’s rich history of Days about non-standard movies and their makers and stars?

July 6, 2021 / DC / 16 Comments

p.s. Hey. So, this is the last, lingering post for the duration of the blog’s and my little summer vacation. The blog’s exact return date is uncertain at the moment, but it will be sometime in the 20s of July, and I’ll give you an advance notice of the return date when I know it. In the meantime, there is a lot up there for you to theoretically explore with excellent results while I’m gone if you like. Feel free to leave any comments you want here, and I will interact with them/you immediately upon the blog’s and my return. ** G, Hi, G! Thanks, I’m ever if slowly improving. Thanks very much about ‘Jerk’. Hopefully you’ll get see the film Gisele Vienne and I made of the theater piece incarnation at some point. It’ll be ‘released’ this fall. Gladman is wonderful, highly recommended. Take good care ion yourself. xo. ** Dominik, Hi!!! My pleasure, of course. Thanks about my mouth. It’s at a seemingly tolerable point now, and hopefully riding roller coasters, etc. for three days will speed that up (or, I guess, send me to the hospital, ha ha). Thank you for the intense love. Greatly appreciated, and I’ll count on it. Love transforming Budapest into a giant amusement park and giving you a Fast Pass for every store/ride, G. And have a lovely net couple of weeks, my dear pal. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. I highly recommend a delivery into her books. And her art. Thank you about my trip, and, especially, m about my gums, which appear to be accepting thatchy must behave. Have a lovely next days, and I will look forward to pumping up my vacation’s jam with Play Therapy’s help. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Thanks. I’m just about ready to split, I think. I would, if you can, start with the first Ravicka book and then read the in order. Bu you can start with the spotlit one if need be. Glad you got some sleep. I hope your life is eventful and not too TL;DR until I get to see you next. xo. ** Misanthrope, Thanks, G. I’ll start getting ready now. And I’ll alert my fellow Parisians. Well, as best I can on my way to the airport. Get that tooth looked at, man. Seriously, take it from me. One’s mouth doesn’t mess around when it feels like hurting one. Take care, bud. ** Dalton, Hi, Dalton. Thank you, kind sir. Will do. And you make more than the best of your next couple of weeks whatever they entail, okay? ** Right. Off I go. See you guys soon. Enjoy everything. Tell me anything you want to tell me. And I’ll see you and catch up with you ere long.

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16 Comments

Dominik
July 6, 2021 at 9:22 am

Hi!!

Have the loveliest trip, Dennis!! I hope the new rides will meet and maybe even surpass your wildest expectations and the rest of your vacation will be just what you’ve planned, too! And, of course, I hope your tooth won’t give you any more trouble!

I’ll definitely spend some time here these next couple of weeks because today’s post is RICH. Thank you!

Love simply wishing you the very, very best of times, Od.

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Misanthrope
July 6, 2021 at 2:36 pm

Safe and fun travels to and fro, Big D! See you on the other side.

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Bill
July 6, 2021 at 6:05 pm

Hope the holiday is off to a festive start, Dennis. This is a great post to start the blog’s vacation.

Not surprisingly, I decided to first click on the James Duval day. I hadn’t seen Nowhere on the post’s first appearance. I finally found a copy last year; it’s my favorite Araki film after Mysterious Skin.

Bill

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_Black_Acrylic
July 9, 2021 at 10:03 am

The new episode of Play Therapy is online here at Tak Tent Radio! Ben ‘Jack Your Body’ Robinson brings you Italo, Synth Wave, EBM grit and some Murder Balladry on a lo-fi Casio drum machine too.

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- _Black_Acrylic
  July 13, 2021 at 4:34 pm
  
  As you may have heard, England were beaten in the final of the Euros by a marvellously hard bitten and savvy Italy side. The defender Chiellini staged the most outrageous foul on England’s Saka during extra time and this is my favourite meme of the night.
  
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Billy
July 11, 2021 at 12:53 am

Hey Dennis don’t know where you’re going but hope it’s fun after long confinement. I’ve got a few days off and am going to try and catch a Bresson movie if I can because I really liked your piece on him in Smothered on Hugs. There’s something you said about him – I think that his work was ‘unimpeachably fair, so lacking in ulterior motivation’ that reminded me of something that occurred to me reading Frsik; that morality results from a failure of irony. Perhaps I will figure out if there’s a there there, or if it was just a freak of memory.
Wishing you well
Xxx

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Licila Lanza
July 11, 2021 at 10:13 pm

Buen Día Señor Dennis, es primera vez que me dirijo a usted, nunca había escuchado de su persona. Hasta hoy de una forma inusual. En un sueño que tuve esta mañana. A continuación relato mi sueño. Estaba soñando que yo viaje a Tegucigalpa capital de mi país Honduras junto con una tía mía. Estando en la capital mi tía se quedo en su casa y Yo me dirigí a un lugar donde iban a impartir un seminario, relacionado con las vivencias de cada participante, donde nosotros compartiriamos sobre cada situación vivida y como lo superamos. Antes de comenzar el seminario el moderador expresaba que nuestra participación seria atendido personalmente por cada miembro de la delegación que nos visitava y en ese momento entraron todos los miembros de la delegación, dentro de los cuales usted era uno de los miembros. Una vez que dieron todos los parámetros nos pidieron a cada invitado que nos sentaramos en unas bancas tipo estudiantil en una línea horizontal y frente a nosotros sillas similares se sentaron los delegados que escucharían nuestras historias. Usted tomo una silla y se sentó enfrente del invitado que estaba a mi lado. Y Con mi persona se sentó otro miembro de la delegación. Cada uno de los invitados y delegados en su tiempo asignado empezaron hablar, quienes eran, su procedencia y que es lo mas impactante que habían vivido que cambio sus vidas . Y cuando llego su tiempo usted se expreso de una forma confiada que transmitió un mensaje corporal que se sentía agusto en lo que estaba haciendo y se dirigió a todos pero su vista a mi persona y dijo me llamo Dennis Cooper, soy Norte Americano, he vivido cosas que nadie se las imagina que un ser humano puede vivir. Pero estoy aquí para que mis vivencias restauren vidas, siéntanse en confianza de hablar. Después de su participación tuvimos un receso y usted se acercó a platicar con migo y yo comente que su participación había sido muy emotiva y le exprese que por su apariencia me había imaginado que era de Estados Unidos, porque era diferente a los demás delegados y usted me decía riendo muy alegre, mis ojos claros me delatan que no soy de aquí. En eso termino mi sueño y me desperté. Después de terminar los que ha seres de mi casa empecé a buscar en ínternet el nombre Dennis Cooper y sorprendentemente encontré una fotografía de un joven que tenia similitud a la persona que vi en mi sueño y era una fotografía suya de hace unos años atrás de usted. Razón por la cual me he dirigido a usted para contarle este sueño, que lo más seguro solo usted sabrá el significado.

Atentamente, Lucila Lanza
La Ceiba Honduras, Centro América

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G
July 18, 2021 at 10:29 pm

Hi Dennis, I hope your vacation was amazing. There is going to be a film based on JERK?! OMG I await it impatiently. I reread it this morning, and for some reason I found it even more riveting on the second read. I appreciated the structure a lot more this time. Oh, but the dialogue! Of course it’d make an incredible film! I did think of that the first time I read it. But I’m also really obsessed with the pictures. Will there be puppets/ marionettes in the film? Love, me.

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_Black_Acrylic
July 23, 2021 at 6:16 pm

RIP Peter Rehberg, intensely sad news there.

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K
July 23, 2021 at 9:12 pm

Hi Dennis, just dropped in to ask if there’s an address where I can mail something to you? Hope you’re having/had a great vacation!
K x

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Bill
July 24, 2021 at 1:48 am

Yikes, so sorry to hear Peter Rehberg is gone.

Hope the vacation has gone well, Dennis.

Just saw this, which you might also enjoy:
https://letterboxd.com/film/rock-paper-and-scissors/

You probably know these Fred Hasted films have been screening in various places. I saw them at a theater that would normally show things like Wes Anderson movies. Very disorienting to see them on a huge screen with a good sound system, sitting in a comfy seat that reclines.

Bill

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Brian
July 26, 2021 at 6:48 am

Hey, Dennis,

Just dropping in to say that I hope you’re having, or have had, a wonderful holiday; and also to thank you for this post, because otherwise I would never have heard of Lionel Soukaz, whose films are proving to hold an still-increasing fascination for me. “Le Sexe des Anges” was highly enjoyable and “Ixe” just totally took my breath away. (Now I just need to find a version of “Race d’Ep” with the first chapter intact.) Not much has been going on here personally in the interval. The main recent event was that, like Bill above, I too went to see those Halsted films, and can confirm that they’re pretty wild in a theater. And also I’m finally working my way through “2666”. Everything else is business, or lack thereof, as usual. A thousand happy returns to you and yours!

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DC (Post author)
July 26, 2021 at 6:13 pm

Hi all, The blog will return to life on this coming Friday, July30th. See you then! xo

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Steve Erickson
July 27, 2021 at 1:55 am

I hope your U.S. trip was both fun and fruitful for research. Are the effects of climate change more visible here than they were in Paris?

I don’t think the Halsted program has played New York this year, but it screened at MOMA in very early 2020. Seeing those films in an actual theater was a great experience (and I never knew that so many gay men still dressed like 1979 Castro St. clones!)

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T
July 29, 2021 at 5:07 pm

Hey Dennis!

Welcome back! I thought I’d sneak back in on the eve of your return and leave a note ready for tomorrow. Hope you had a gorgeous time away travelling. I would ask you how was it, but I realise that you will probably have typed out an answer to that question already, in all likelihood multiple times, so I will just ask whether there was any particularly notable detail or occurrence that has hidden itself at the limit of your recollections but then deciding to clarify itself at this point in the PS.

In terms of what’s been happening at this end, the answer is not so much. I have moved back down to my parents’ for the summer, which on the upside is comfortable and restful and gives me time to do writing and music, but on the downside it means living with my family at close quarters which has been slightly…testing.

Otherwise, this post is such an amazing resource… I will probably bookmark this day for reference in the future. It also provided me with the inciting kick to spend some more time with the work of Robert Bresson, Satoshi Kon, for which I’m very grateful. I would have liked to write more about the films I did watch, but I gotta dash now for work, speak tomorrow then I guess, xxT

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HR
July 30, 2021 at 1:52 am

Hey Dennis! Hope your summer breaks going great. First time commenting. Just got back from the Huntington, managed to see the haunted house before it closed. So cool, seemed like a fun and creative era. Xo

-Hugo

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