I was idly tapping search terms into the Interweb and, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but this recent addition to the Criterion Collection:
Not only have I not seen this film, I’ve not heard of it. Anyone?
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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Love it, love it, love it. The low budget definitely worked in its favor. [And the fact that Flannery had at one time baby-sat the screenwriters? Well, how cool is that?]
This is one DVD where I really enjoyed the 'extras' – especially the audio of Flannery reading "A Good Man…" I would say that this is a very good investment for one's home movie library!
It's great and very faithful.
I wonder if the term 'wise blood' could be metaphorical. Last night I dreamt I was strangled (or they attempted to) by someone posing as an elderly woman hiding under a table, who I thought was somebody I knew could 'Ron'.
It was Peter Sellers in drag and they wanted to use your flat to access a bank vault.
Thanks for the comments. I've got to try to see this film.
I think that I have heard that recording of Flannery, Ellyn, and it is terrific. It is a cheering thing when someone sounds like they should.
Course you've heard of it. It's something one likes when one is quite young.
Ah, don't be such a wet blanket, Anon. Reclaim your youth, be born again.
From Netflix reviewer "Sodium Glupinate":
I've never seen any movie that follows the book to such detail. The film works on many levels. It is a wonderful, haunting dark comedy. It is a blast to watch because of the quirky characters and quotable dialog. It has more memorable quotes than any movie I know of except for, perhaps, PeeWees Big Adventure.