“Evil floats, weightlessly across the landscape of Los Angeles in Nicolas Winding Refn’s new film, The Neon Demon, co-scripted with TV writer Mary Laws and British dramatist Polly Stenham. It is a reverie of such sheer satanic rapture that Refn could be on danger of taking Bret Easton Elis’ crown as the Aleister Crowley of the 21st century.”
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The Neon Demon
Posted in Film, Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags Aleister Crowley, Bret Easton Ellis, Drive, Los Angeles, Nicolas Winding Refn, Peter Bradshaw, Sergei Eisenstein, The Guardian, The Neon Demon on June 14, 2021 by Jarrod BoyleAutobiography of a Loser
Posted in Observation, Reading, Real Men with tags acne, alcoholism, Angela's Ashes, Charles Bukowski, Elephant Man, Frank McCourt, Ham on Rye, Henry Chinaski, Hermann Hesse, Los Angeles, Post Office, Steppenwolf, Women on June 26, 2014 by Jarrod BoyleA lot of people think Charles Bukowski’s Ham on Rye is his best novel. Continue reading