M. Leary

De Palmian Dissonance

(Ed. note: A very welcome, detailed, and incisive guest post from Ryan Holt, who does not write enough about cinema over here. This is the second post in a series on De Palma and Chris Dumas’ recent book Un-American Psycho.)   In his “film essay” on forgery and deceit, F for Fake, Orson Welles performs a magic trick […]

M. Leary

Chris Dumas and De Palma's Obsession

(Ed. note: A very welcome, detailed, and incisive guest post from Ryan Holt, who does not write enough about cinema over here. This is the first post in a series on De Palma and Chris Dumas’ recent book Un-American Psycho.)   “You see, several years ago, long after the floods, moisture seeped into a portion of the altarpiece, […]