World Arts Review

Keel | Bryony Ive (screenplay), Gabrielle Russell / 2004 [film] - the voyage to anywhere by Douglas Messerli Bryony Ive (screenplay), Gabrielle Russell *Keel */ 2004 One of the most beautiful “coming of age” films I’v...

Robert Wiene | Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) - a great big beautiful doll by Douglas Messerli Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer (writers), Robert Wiene (director) *Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari*(*The Cabin...

Ninety Lines for Marjorie Perloff - ninety lines *for Marjorie Perloff* My parents simply could not like a vortex purge the cyclical fluctuations of the...

from Chicago, South Korean production with Choi Jae Rim [link] - For a wonderful view of a scene from the South Korean production of Chicago, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCWBWXyUh2Q

Douglas Messerli | "A Man of Many Masks" (on Elsa Flores Almaraz and Richard Montoya's film Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire) - a man of many masks Elsa Flores Almaraz and Richard Montoya (writers and directors) *Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire */ 2019 In reviewing the LGBTQ...

Douglas Messerli | "The Missing" (on Don Skiles' Across the Street fromt he Ordinary) - the missing by Douglas Messerli Don Skiles *Across the Street from the Ordinary *(Claremont, California: Pelekinesis,2020) A blurb for Don Skiles’ previo...

Douglas Messrli | Robert Hunter: Poet - robert hunter: poet by Douglas Messerli Yesterday, for the first time I listened to three songs by The Grateful Dead, “Scarlet Begonias,” “China Cat Sunfl...