Folded Corners

5% Kubrick’s relationship to the horror genre was soon grasped in a different way by more reflective critics. The director seemed to have a parodic or subversive approach, turning Gothic conventions on their head, locating the horror not in supernatural threats to the nuclear family but erupting from its domestic heart. 7% This is in the nature of paranoid readings: The Shining does to its viewers what the hotel does to its visitors – it makes them shine on things glimpsed that were perhaps nev...

9% I had read in an essay by the film scholar Philippe Dubois that the Royal Belgian Film Archive holds a trove of material relating to La Jetée, including a copy of a different version of the film, an exercise book containing an editing plan and a collection of correspondence between Marker and Jacques Ledoux, the former director of the Film Archive. 14% In his later, post-filmic period, this curatorial principle can also be seen at work in the encyclopaedic bricolage of the cd-rom Immemory (1...