Yekaterina Golubeva and David Wissak in Twentynine Palms (2003)

"Off-Halloween" Recommendations: Bruno Dumont's 'Twentynine Palms'

December 6, 2016

While working in the desert on one of his films, French auteur Bruno Dumont (much, perhaps, like Liv Ullman in Ingmar Bergman's Persona) “suddenly became afraid, and stayed that way.” According to the director, the sudden manifestation of this existential horror was the impetus for 2003's Twentynine Palms, a riveting, allegorical, terrifyingly unclassifiable foray into the Mojave, and into the sun-drenched, pitch-black center of Yeats’ The Second Coming.

"Off-Halloween" Recommendations: David Lynch's 'Inland Empire'

November 5, 2016

A love affair may or may not be taking place. A subplot involving prostitutes may or may not be crossing through sepia-tinted 1930s Poland to materialize on a harsh Hollywood street in the 21st century.

An Interview with Luna Luna Poetry Editor Lisa A. Flowers

December 29, 2015

I’m thinking specifically of Christianity’s notion of finite resting places (blazing hot or room-temperature) teamed with Buddhist/Hindu reincarnation notions and Greek polytheistic elements. The book is a cream vichyssoise where these ingredients are available to be salted, peppered, and consumed. Could you talk a little about how the book is and is not a supplement to all religious texts?