A no-frills B-noir born in the gutter of Hollywood’s Poverty Row, Detour was shot in six days on a broken-shoestring budget in the low six figures. Given the track record of its parent PRC film studio (Producers Releasing Corporation, or “Pretty Rotten Crap,” as the joke went), this 1945 road movie should have disappeared into the vanishing point of film history faster than a hitchhiker in your rearview mirror. Click through for Paul Brunick’s review of the film and a short interview with Noah Isenberg, who will be introducing the film tonight, November 16th, at BAM.
Category Archives: Writers
Road to Perdition
November 16, 2009 – 4:29 pm
Kristin Naca: Word Eating Bird
November 16, 2009 – 2:50 pm
Kristin Naca’s first book Bird Eating Bird was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the National Poetry Series and published October 2009 by HarperCollins. Naca’s language is similar to her title—her poems are delicate, meticulously edited, and at times ravenously devour the reader.
The Dance of Death
November 9, 2009 – 3:25 pm
How can one explain the wonderful and terrifying magic of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1948 adaptation of The Red Shoes? A film about creative obsession, it has itself become the object of such obsession.
Fady Joudah: Translating Darwish
November 9, 2009 – 1:27 pm
Houston, Texas doctor and poet Fady Joudah translated Darwish’s If I Were Another and The Butterfly’s Burden, which won a TLS Translation Prize (the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize) for Arabic Literary Translation from the Society of Authors in the UK. Joudah’s first collection of poetry, The Earth in the Attic, was published in the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 2008.
Rachel Zucker: Poetry Doula
November 2, 2009 – 3:17 pm
Thumbing through the pages of my newly acquired review copies I came across the press release for Rachel Zucker’s latest book Museum of Accidents (Wave Books October 2009). It read “A brutally honest epic of domestic proportions.” I began reading the book and found a brutally honest account of marriage, motherhood, and daily life—the good and bad of it all expressed in a compelling urgency shouting from the pages to be heard.
King for a Day
November 2, 2009 – 12:59 pm
If you’re looking for one cuh-ray-zee scene (and I’m talking wild, man) then shuffle down to the East Village for Roger Corman’s hipster horror-comedy A Bucket of Blood, now playing at Anthology Film Archives as part of their Corman retrospective.
Hearts and Minds
October 23, 2009 – 2:38 pm
Half a century old but joltingly relevant, Elia Kazan’s Wild River sheds more light on the promises and pitfalls of our current political moment than almost anything you’ll catch on cable news.
Rachel Levitsky: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
October 19, 2009 – 1:44 pm
In the close quarters of New York City, unless you have great walls, you often become acquainted with your neighbors’ musical tastes, the hours they keep, and even the sex life they may or may not have. Rachel Levitsky’s innovative, smart, and beautifully designed new book Neighbor (Ugly Duckling Presse 2009) illuminates this odd relationship between urban neighbors through a dated log of poetic entries.
Maggie Nelson: True Blue
October 12, 2009 – 12:41 pm
Maggie Nelson’s most recent book Bluets (Wave Books, 2009) is a poetic nonfiction meditation on the color blue. She starts with “Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color,” and goes on to illuminate several factual, historical, and sometimes personal experiences with the color blue.
Mary Jo Bang: The Bride of Alliteration
October 5, 2009 – 2:18 pm
Mary Jo Bang’s poems are full of elbows and sharp, uncomfortable angles. She skillfully delves into the harsh crevices of life and mind and illuminates them with her alliterative, controlled verse. Bang’s latest book The Bride of E (Graywolf Press 2009) continues this tradition with an alphabetized heady contemplation of high and low culture.
Season 5 Sneak Peek: Julie Mehretu
October 2, 2009 – 11:35 am
In celebration of the forthcoming fifth season of Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century, broadcasting this October on PBS, each week we bring you a video clip from a featured artist’s segment. The final artist we are profiling in this series is Julie Mehretu. Read a detailed explanation of Mehretu’s work back on Art21’s blog here, and check out Lawrence Chua’s 2005 BOMB interview with her here.
Cheryl Dumesnil Gets Up
September 28, 2009 – 10:47 am
Cheryl Dumesnil’s first book In Praise of Falling is the winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. It begins with the Zen proverb, “Fall down seven times, get up eight.” This proverb could be a mantra for any aspiring writer.
Season 5 Sneak Peek: Allan McCollum
September 25, 2009 – 11:33 am
In celebration of the forthcoming fifth season of Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century, broadcasting this October on PBS, each week we bring you a video clip from a featured artist’s segment. Up next is artist Allan McCollum. Read a detailed explanation of McCollum’s work back on Art21’s blog here. Read an interview McCollum conducted with artist Harrell Fletcher for BOMB here.
Survivor: Poetry Edition
September 21, 2009 – 12:11 pm
Campbell McGrath’s latest collection, Shannon, is a book-length poetic narrative about George Shannon, the youngest member of the Corps of Discovery a.k.a The Lewis and Clark Expedition. McGrath creates the unrecorded history of the 16 days George Shannon went missing from the expedition.
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