The Fall of the House of Usher Jul 15, 2008
Edgar Allen Poe is considered a writer in the Gothic genre. His style is often intense horror, yet he also writes in the style of Romanticism. (Suite101.com)
Stephen King horror fest comes to the big screen Dec 8, 2007
There are echoes of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story The Fall of the House of Usher in the movie. But in Poe's story the house's collapse is a metaphor for mental breakdown. (The Age)
Tom Verlaine and Jimmy Rip have daring new sounds for daring older images Sep 30, 2007
The movies themselves are well known to scholars: "The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra" and "The Fall of the House of Usher," both from 1928; shorts by Dada proponents Man Ray and Hans Richter; Fernand Leger's mesmerizing 1924 "Ballet Mecanique." They're from an era when post-World War I art-punks colonized the cinema as a matter of principle; the new scores rescue the films from the past and allow them to breathe again. Generally Verlaine and Rip give as good as they get. (Boston Globe)
Solved: The mystery of the 'Poe toaster' Aug 17, 2007
Poe wrote such horror classics as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death and The Raven. In about 1977, Mr. Jerome began inviting a handful of people each year to a vigil for the mysterious stranger. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Filmmaker of macabre Curtis Harrington dies May 11, 2007
"Curtis Harrington was born in Los Angeles, and grew up in Beaumont, Calif. He begged his mother to take him to The Raven, with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. She claimed he hid under his seat, but he had no memory of that perhaps pivotal event. As a teenager he worked as a movie usher and made amateur films.His Fragment of Seeking, shot with 16-mm film when Harrington was a teenager, is still cited for its adventuresome experimentalism: it was entirely visual with no dialogue.Harrington never... (The Morning Star)
