Ten years ago, probably around the time I'm writing this, I established my Blogger account, clicked "Create a New Blog," and chose the title "thedancingimage" to go with the "blogspot" domain. SEPTEMBER UPDATE: This podcast is now public (and in illustrated video form) - more details here. Longer essays will be divided over several episodes, as is the case here in anticipation of my Billy Liar and This Sporting Life reviews in the next two weeks, I lay out the history of the British New Wave and the cultural context of 1963, when both films were released. Finally I kick off a new era on "Opening the Archive" - from now on it will be a sort of reading series, in which I share older pieces from this site.
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As if that wasn't already enough, I also round up a number of podcast episodes (including several that address Ocasio-Cortez's win) plus a few videos, shows, and films that I've watched since June - so all in all, this section is about as long as it's ever been.Īfterwards, I feature some feedback on my Part 8 episode from listeners/patrons, including a long comment from Jake and an even more extended analysis of how Twin Peaks relates to art and creativity as indirect subjects, from Laurence. This was my first opportunity to discuss the lightning-fast rise of Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - I address the success of her campaign, the differences between democratic socialism and social democracy, some of the left's criticisms of her recent statements, the unsurprising but still amusingly frantic reaction of both the right and the center, and more. The Return rewatch, which resumes this week with an exciting, acclaimed episode, isn't much longer than usual and there's no film in focus, so I guess it was mostly the "other topics" section (with a little bit of help from some in-depth listener feedback) that stretched things out. This ended up being a surprisingly long podcast (as well as a surprisingly late one - I got the actual episode up within an hour of its schedule, but the show note links, this cross-post, and other details took a bit longer).
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(By the way, side note: I'm still working on the archive pages, and they should be up hopefully within a week if not a day or two.) I promise to do a better job of keeping track of this going forward, and am delighted to see the responses I was getting unbeknownst to myself.
Is there a place, by the way, where readers can check out all of the various comments on my site on one page, not just limited to the individual pieces being commented upon? Like the same way my sidebar widget works, but without a numerical limit? Considering the variety of posts (some quite old) that receive comments, this seems like it would be a plus. There are so many in fact that I decided to devote a whole post to the ones that were lost in limbo (aside from any that were just questions in a thread), since they're being approved too late to appear on my sidebar. I thought I was checking in on Disqus pretty regularly (certainly at least once or twice within the past few months), but apparently I wasn't so a dozen or so comments stretching back to the spring were hidden from view until now, waiting to be approved. Quick take is I thought it was funny, fascinating, and flawed, and that it offered an extraordinarily and unusually deep well to draw from.
This will probably be the week after next week so I have more time to read some other takes on it and dialogue with them. Incidentally, this weekend I saw Sorry to Bother You, a major new release that will definitely be featured as a film in focus in August. For my biweekly preview, the Laura character structure finally reaches the most interesting section, in which I organize the scenes that feature her "spirit" in one way or another.
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I also read some feedback on Part 9 and talk about Disney World's late Great Movie Ride which I was compelled to bring up for some reason. My Return rewatch reaches Part 12, widely considered a disappointment at the time although I found it really rich to explore on this viewing.
There's no film of focus however, for the first time the Opening the Archive section emphasizes a particular title as I read aloud my review of Billy Liar from 2010 (part of a longer essay which I'll conclude next week with a review of This Sporting Life). After two long episodes (especially last week), this one's a nice little digestible nugget - it comes in at almost exactly an hour.
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